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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La Liga had to delete the registration of new FC Barcelona star Joan Garcia after mistakenly including him in the Catalans' first team squad on Friday afternoon, a few hours after the goalkeeper signed his contract at the Joan Gamper CT.
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Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
For those who are not U.S. citizens, there is no guarantee that photos taken at airports will be deleted.
—Acacia Gabriel, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2025
Perhaps for the same reason Trump’s secretary of defense ordered Arlington National Cemetery to delete webpage memorials of Black and Latino people and women who defended our country.
—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
American Oversight says the officials violated federal records law with their use of Signal, a commercial messaging app that allows messages to be automatically deleted.
—Elena Moore, NPR, 20 June 2025
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Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
For those who are not U.S. citizens, there is no guarantee that photos taken at airports will be deleted.
—Acacia Gabriel, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2025
Perhaps for the same reason Trump’s secretary of defense ordered Arlington National Cemetery to delete webpage memorials of Black and Latino people and women who defended our country.
—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
American Oversight says the officials violated federal records law with their use of Signal, a commercial messaging app that allows messages to be automatically deleted.
—Elena Moore, NPR, 20 June 2025
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delete. Accessed 30 Jun. 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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