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delete

[ dih-leet ]

verb (used with object)

, de·let·ed, de·let·ing.
  1. to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.

    Synonyms: eradicate



delete

/ dɪˈliːt /

verb

  1. tr to remove (something printed or written); erase; cancel; strike out


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Other Words From

  • de·leta·ble adjective
  • rede·lete verb (used with object) redeleted redeleting
  • unde·leted adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of delete1

1485–95; < Latin dēlētus (past participle of dēlēre to destroy), equivalent to dēl- destroy + -ē- thematic vowel + -tus past participle suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of delete1

C17: from Latin dēlēre to destroy, obliterate

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Synonym Study

See cancel.

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Example Sentences

Ultimately, all it took was the mere mention of a lawyer for the perpetrator to delete the accounts and disappear completely.

The Navy captain responded to the text from Bissonnette with the words, “Delete me.”

Or perhaps just delete your social media accounts altogether.

Or, I should say, why did Facebook delete my account three times?

Twitter required an old-fashioned fax of a government-issued ID before it would delete the imitator account.

In l. 87 I delete alas after him, which makes the line a whole foot too long, and is not required.

It was curtailed, but delete it as one would, it was still too long.

Would you rather I just delete what I said and just pretend that nothing is going on?

Would it be possible to delete it from the Commission's report?

The very war-correspondents were instructed to delete the horror and to write nothing that would disturb your calm.

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