deleted; deleting
: to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing
delete a passage in a manuscript
delete a computer file
The email was accidentally deleted.
Examples of delete in a Sentence
Delete this name from the list.
When the movie was shown on TV all the swearwords had been deleted.
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The department deleted the post, and Mayor Bill Bazzi said the idea for a badge shouldn't have been presented as an official protype.
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
There were 345 messages eventually found to have been deleted between downloads but, when recovered, were between Paqueta and his mother and another individual.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
If Fina is correct and the private keys never left its control and were subsequently securely deleted, there is no danger.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
While the Instagram photo has now been deleted, the earliest photo Pegula still has up with Gahagen is from a date in New York City in September 2016.
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
There were 345 messages eventually found to have been deleted between downloads but, when recovered, were between Paqueta and his mother and another individual.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
If Fina is correct and the private keys never left its control and were subsequently securely deleted, there is no danger.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
While the Instagram photo has now been deleted, the earliest photo Pegula still has up with Gahagen is from a date in New York City in September 2016.
—Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for delete
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delete. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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delete
verb
de·lete
di-ˈlēt 
deleted; deleting
: to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing
delete a part of the story
delete a computer file
deletion
noun
di-ˈlē-shən
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