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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Messages between Lauber and Kouri Richins from early 2022 were deleted from both their phones, a digital forensic analyst testified, but investigators were able to recover dozens of online searches made on a phone Kouri Richins started using in April 2022.
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Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
By July 2025, according to the company, all location history data previously stored on Google servers had been deleted or moved to device storage only.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
The Senate deleted that language from a budget bill that is likely to resurface.
—Jeffrey S. Solochek, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
The interview was subsequently deleted from the journalist’s YouTube page, either because people didn’t get the joke or because the joke was unintentionally revealing.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
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Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
By July 2025, according to the company, all location history data previously stored on Google servers had been deleted or moved to device storage only.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
The Senate deleted that language from a budget bill that is likely to resurface.
—Jeffrey S. Solochek, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
The interview was subsequently deleted from the journalist’s YouTube page, either because people didn’t get the joke or because the joke was unintentionally revealing.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
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 22 Mar. 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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