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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That post has also since been deleted.
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Cbs La Staff, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026
If the content is not deleted, the person in question would be able to sue the content creator.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
That post has also since been deleted.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
There is still time to delete this.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delete. Accessed 31 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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