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delete

to strike out or cancel, as from a text

Not to be confused with:

erase – remove, as by rubbing or wiping out

de·lete

(dĭ-lēt′)

tr.v. de·let·ed, de·let·ing, de·letes

a. To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived: deleted the expletives from the transcript with a marker.

b. To remove from a document or record: deleted the names from the computer file. See Synonyms at erase.

2. To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.

[Latin dēlēre, dēlēt-, to wipe out.]

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delete

(dɪˈliːt)

(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to remove (something printed or written); erase; cancel; strike out

[C17: from Latin dēlēre to destroy, obliterate]

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de•lete

(dɪˈlit)

v.t. -let•ed, -let•ing.

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

[1485–95; < Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre to destroy]

de•let′a•ble, adj.

delete

Past participle: deleted
Gerund: deleting

Imperative
delete
delete

Present
I delete
you delete
he/she/it deletes
we delete
you delete
they delete

Preterite
I deleted
you deleted
he/she/it deleted
we deleted
you deleted
they deleted

Present Continuous
I am deleting
you are deleting
he/she/it is deleting
we are deleting
you are deleting
they are deleting

Present Perfect
I have deleted
you have deleted
he/she/it has deleted
we have deleted
you have deleted
they have deleted

Past Continuous
I was deleting
you were deleting
he/she/it was deleting
we were deleting
you were deleting
they were deleting

Past Perfect
I had deleted
you had deleted
he/she/it had deleted
we had deleted
you had deleted
they had deleted

Future
I will delete
you will delete
he/she/it will delete
we will delete
you will delete
they will delete

Future Perfect
I will have deleted
you will have deleted
he/she/it will have deleted
we will have deleted
you will have deleted
they will have deleted

Future Continuous
I will be deleting
you will be deleting
he/she/it will be deleting
we will be deleting
you will be deleting
they will be deleting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been deleting
you have been deleting
he/she/it has been deleting
we have been deleting
you have been deleting
they have been deleting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been deleting
you will have been deleting
he/she/it will have been deleting
we will have been deleting
you will have been deleting
they will have been deleting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been deleting
you had been deleting
he/she/it had been deleting
we had been deleting
you had been deleting
they had been deleting

Conditional
I would delete
you would delete
he/she/it would delete
we would delete
you would delete
they would delete

Past Conditional
I would have deleted
you would have deleted
he/she/it would have deleted
we would have deleted
you would have deleted
they would have deleted

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb

delete - remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

rub out, score out, wipe off, erase, efface - remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

excise, expunge, scratch, strike - remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

delete - wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

recording, transcription - the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"

take away, take out - take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"

delete - cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"

censor - subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

delete

verb remove, cancel, cut out, erase, edit, excise, strike out, obliterate, efface, blot out, cross out, expunge, dele, rub out, edit out, blue-pencil He deleted files from the computer system.

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delete

verb

To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean:

annul, blot (out), cancel, cross (off or out), efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub (out), scratch (out), strike (out), undo, wipe (out), x (out).

Translations

vymazatvyškrtnout

slettestrygefjerne

eksigiforpreniforstreki

poistaa

obrisati

töröl

strika út, òurrka út

削除する

삭제하다

išbraukimasišbrauktiištrintiištrynimas

izdzēstizsvītrot

izbrisati

radera

ลบ

xóa

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delete

[dɪˈliːt] vt (gen) (Comput) → cancellare
to delete (from) (item, from list, catalogue) → togliere (da); (mistake, line) → cancellare (da)

delete

(diˈliːt) verb

to rub or strike out (eg a piece of writing). Delete his name from the list.

deˈletion noun

delete

→ يَحْذِفُ vymazat slette streichen διαγράφω suprimir poistaa effacer obrisati cancellare 削除する 삭제하다 verwijderen slette usunąć deletar, eliminar удалять radera ลบ silmek xóa 删除