Definition of delete
deleted
;deleting
transitive verb
: to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing delete a passage in a manuscript delete a computer file The e-mail was accidentally deleted.
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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.
Recent Examples of delete from the Web
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Browne-Louis was caught in the web further by deleting text messages from McCullum and making misleading statements to law enforcement and a federal grand jury.
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And remember when Justin Bieber deleted his Instagram for several months after all that drama sparked by fans leaving mean comments on Sofia Richie’s account?
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Not long after news broke of Ball’s status, Fox — who first met Ball on the AAU circuit and spoke at length about the budding rivalry with the Sacramento Bee recently — tweeted a palm-to-face emoji that was deleted soon thereafter.
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Only one state - Arkansas - has submitted data via the SAFE site and that information will be deleted, according to the commission.
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According to reports on social media, several people tried to access their Instagram accounts today only to find that they had been deleted or disabled.
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MacDonough’s ruling may prompt the bill’s authors to delete language before the bill comes to the Senate floor.
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Neither Kendall nor Kylie has responded to the controversy at this time but an Instagram of the shirts posted by Kendall yesterday has since been deleted.
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Johnson's attorney, Thomas McAdam, also sent a letter to the Courier-Journal demanding the news organization retract and delete three stories about the allegations or face a libel suit.
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Origin and Etymology of delete
Latin deletus, past participle of delēre to wipe out, destroy
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: to remove (something, such as words, pictures, or computer files) from a document, recording, computer, etc.
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deleted
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: to take out especially by erasing, crossing out, or cutting delete a sentence delete a computer file
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