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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In February, a Meta employee went viral after posting about OpenClaw deleting a large amount of emails of its own volition.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 8 May 2026
The post was deleted from the president's Truth Social account on April 13.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Or post it and then delete it afterward.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 May 2026
To make matters worse, some of these AI agents are going rogue, deleting data or executing other unintended actions.
—Nigel Melville, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 8 May 2026
The post was deleted from the president's Truth Social account on April 13.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Or post it and then delete it afterward.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 May 2026
To make matters worse, some of these AI agents are going rogue, deleting data or executing other unintended actions.
—Nigel Melville, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delete. Accessed 11 May. 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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