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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—Sam Peters, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
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Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The comment has subsequently been deleted, and the sound was removed from the video.
—Sam Peters, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
Then delete the message from your inbox or junk folder.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
The only connection data held on its servers are time stamps, which are deleted after 15 minutes.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delete. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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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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