Delete

Definition: Delete

Delete

Verb

1. Remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list".

2. Wipe out magnetically recorded information.

3. Edit, delete, or revise; of books, etc.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "delete" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references)

Note: Delete \De*lete"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deleted; present participle verb or noun Deleting.]. (references)

Computing

Census

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Delete

Crosswords: Delete

German (del).

I programmed this video file to send itself in twenty-four hours if I didn't delete it. I didn't delete it, so I guess you must've deleted meYeah, I sorta saw that one coming (Taken; writing credit: Leslie Bohem;)

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Books

• Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation (Check Info and Delete This Occurrence: |t Blackstone's Guide Series) (reference)

• Delete Pliska Lipop Drug Action (Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry, Vol 4) (reference)

• P&Lmfrnt Mtrindxdont Delete (reference)

• Royal Historical Society: Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History (Check Info and Delete This Occurrence: |t Rhs Annual Bibliography) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Delete Nature Convert Today (reference)

• Delete Yourself (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Civil Liberties

Singapore

In May, singer Janet Jackson's album "All for You" was banned officially by the Ministry of Information and the Arts due to the sexually explicit lyrics of one of its tracks; Jackson declined to delete the track from the album. (references)

Belize

The Belize Broadcasting Authority regulates broadcasting and asserts its right to preview certain broadcasts, such as those with political content, and to delete any defamatory or personally libelous material from political broadcasts. (references)

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Afrikaans

afwis (wipe, wipe off), afveeg (wipe, wipe off), afvee (wipe, wipe off). (various references)

Albanian

s'lë gjurmë, shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), fshij (brush, brush away, cancel, clean off, clean up, deface, efface, erase, mop up, obliterate, rase, raze, remove, rub, rub out, scratch out, strike off, sweep, wipe, wipe away, wipe off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حذف (cancel, cancellation, castrate, edit, elide, elimination, elision, miss out, omission, omit, retrench, skip, write off), ‏شطب (blot, cancel, cancellation, cross, cross out, deletion, score, scratch, scratching, slash, stroke, write off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

зачерквам (black out, blank, cancel, cross off, cross out, kill, score out, scratch off, strike, write off), задрасквам (cancel, cross out, deface, expunge, scratch off, scratch out, strike through, take off), премахвам (cut out, do away, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, kill, level, make away with, obviate, put down, remove, rid, rip out, smooth, undo), изтривам (efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rase, raze, rub away, rub out, rub up, wear, wear away, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe up), да се заличи. (various references)

Chinese 

删除 (Deleted, Deleting, Deletion). (various references)

Czech

vymazat (blot out, clear, erase, obliterate, puddle, rub off, rub out, scrub, wipe out), škrtnout (cross out, strike off). (various references)

Danish

stryge (caress, chuck, fondle, stroke), gennemstrege (cross out, strike out, to blue pencil, use the blue pencil). (various references)

Dutch

wegvagen, uitwissen (obliterate), uitvegen. (various references)

Esperanto

viŝi (wipe, wipe off), forviŝi. (various references)

Faeroese

turka (dry, wipe, wipe off). (various references)

Farsi 

حذف کردن (Dele, Eliminate, Expurgate, Omit, Retrench), انداختن (Cast, Drop, Hitch, Hurl, Hurtle, Jaculate, Launch, Layaway, Omit, Put, Relegate, Shovel, Sling, Slough, Souse, Throw, Thrust, Toss), برداشتن (Pickup, Remove, Take). (various references)

Finnish

pyyhkiä (cancel, cross out, dry, mop, strike out, wipe, wipe off), poistaa (abolish, deduct, do away with, eliminate, exclude, remove, strike out, take out, withdraw, write off). (various references)

French

effacer (deface), essuyer. (various references)

Frisian

ôfwiskje (wipe, wipe off), ôffeie (wipe, wipe off). (various references)

German

tilgen (amortize, compound, erase, exterminate, liquidate, obliterate, pay off, redeem, satisfy, to amortize, to obliterate, to pay off, wear away, wipe out), löschen (amortize, blot, blow out, clear, close, deaden, discharge, erase, erasure, expunge, extinguish, kill, land, pay off, put out, quench, redeem, rub off, rub out, scratch, slake, souse, strike off, switch out, to delete, to erase, to expunge, to extinguish, to kill, to slake, turn off, unload, unship, wipe out, zap), ausstreichen (blue pencil, cancel, cross out, efface, expunge, grease, obliterate, score off, score out, score through, scratch out, smooth out, smooth over, spread out, strike out, to scratch out, to strike out). (various references)

Greek 

εξαλείφω (blot out, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub out, strike out, wipe out), διαγράφω (black out, cancel, cross off, cross out, delineate, erase, rub out, score out, scratch out, silhouette, strike off, wipe out, write off), σβήνω (blow out, burn out, die out, erase, extinguish, fade away, faint, go out, obliterate, put out, quench, rub out, slake, snuff, snuff out, switch off, turn off, wipe out). (various references)

Hebrew 

למחוק (cancel, cross out, efface, erase, raze, rub out, rubber, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write off). (various references)

Hungarian

töröl (blue pencil, cancel, cross off, scratch off, scratch out, to annul, to delete, to efface, to erase, to flannel, to scratch, to scrub, wipe), kihúz (cross out, drag out, draw out, get out, obliterate, protract, pull off, pull out, score out, scratch out, spin out, strike out, to delete, to educe, to excise, to extract, to extricate, to line through, to obliterate, to protract, to pull out, to pull up, to rive sg away, to rive sg off, to unclench, to unclinch), áthúz (cross out, pull through, to cancel, to cross, to line through, to rule out, to run through). (various references)

Indonesian

menghilangkan (allay, deaden, fade, omit), menghapus (erase, expunge), membunuh (assassinate, butcher, erase, kill, murder, plug, put out, slay). (various references)

Italian

cancellare (blot, cancel, cross out, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, obliterate, rub off, rub out, score off, scratch out, stop, strike off, strike out, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

デュラム小麦 (Delaware, delegation, delicacy, delicate, delicatessen, delicatessen shop, delicious, deluxe, derived, duration, durum wheat), 抹消 (erasure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デリート , まっしょう (erasure, minor details, nonessentials, periphery, tip, tree top). (various references)

Korean 

감소 (Decrease, Diminution, reducing, reduction, rundown). (various references)

Manx

scryssey magh (abolishment, abolition, amortize, attrition, blot out, blur, blur as vision, deletion, efface, erase, erasure, obliterate, obliteration, scratch out, scrub, shatter, strike off, wear off), goaill magh (evacuate, evacuation, move out, take out, withdraw, withdraw as money, withdrawal), dolley magh (abolition, abrogate, abrogation, block out, cancel, cancellation, erase, obliteration). (various references)

Norwegian

stryke ut (erase), slette (flat). (various references)

Pig Latin

eleteday.(various references)

Portuguese

riscar (blue-pencil, dele, line, run through, score, scratch, scribe). (various references)

Romanian

scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

удалять (ablate, amputate, ask out, dephosphorize, dislodge, extract, kill, remove, strip off, weed away, weed out, weeded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izbrisati (expunge, obliterate, red pencil, rub out, score out, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, strike, strike off, strike out, wipe out), izbaciti (belch, cut out, dispose, dispose of, eject, jerk, scavenge, throw, throw out, turf out, warp). (various references)

Spanish

tachar (blank, cross out, fault, remove, strike out), limpiar (black, char, clean, clean down, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, debug, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, purge, rub up, scavenge, scour, scrape, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), enjugar (clean, dry, mop and mow, wipe, wipe at, wipe off, wipe out), cancelar (annul, call off, cancel, countermand, erase, repudiate, scratch, spread, to cancel, undo, wipe out, write off, zap), borrar (cross out, destroy, dim, efface, erase, expunge, expurgate, obliterate, rub out, scratch, scratch out, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write away, write off, zap). (various references)

Swedish

utplåna (blot, deface, efface, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, obliterate, paint out, rase off, raze, wipe out). (various references)

Turkish

silmek (blank, blot out, cancel, cross out, Dele, efface, erase, expunge, forgive, furbish, give smth. a wipe, obliterate, rub down, rub off, rub out, rule out, rule smth. out, strike off, strike out, whisk, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, write off), kazımak (erase, grave, incise, inscribe, rub, rub out, scrape, scratch, scratch along, scratch out, stamp, strip), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukrainian

стирати з лиця землі, стирати (abrade, cancel, chafe, deface, efface, erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe away), викреслювати (black out, blot out, blue pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, efface, elide, erase, expunge, line out, obliterate, rase, raze, score out, scratch off, scratch out), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither). (various references)

Welsh

dileu (abolish, abrogate, annul, blot out). (various references)

Zulu

-esula. (various references)

dele, deleam, deleamus, deleant, deleantur, deleas, deleat, deleatur, delebimus, delebis, delebit, delebitque, delebitur, delebo, delebor, delebunt, delebuntur, delendam, delendi, delendos, delens, deleo, delere, delerem, delerent, deleret, deleri, deleta, deletae, deleti, deletis, deleverit, deleverunt, delevi, delevimus, delevit, delevitque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "delete": deleted, deleterious, deleteriously, deleteriousness, deleteriousnesses, deletes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Delete" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bellettee, Dalgetty, dce-lite, dealate, deblate, declate, deglupta, delace, Delaitre, delater, Delaye, deleate, delee, Delestre, delet, deleter, Delibe, delie, Delire, delite, dellorto, deloite, Deltec, Delteil, delto, delut, delute, delzt, diletti, diletto, Domette, dovleti, duete, duette, dwelleth, eleet, elete, Keleti. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: deet, dele, delt, leet, teed, teel, tele.

-3 letters: dee, del, eel, eld, led, lee, let, ted, tee, tel.

-4 letters: de, ed, el, et.

+1 letter: beetled, deleted, deletes, deplete, elected, fleeted, gleeted, sleeted, steeled, telexed, tweedle.

+2 letters: delegate, depleted, depletes, deselect, elevated, helmeted, lettered, pelleted, peltered, relented, remelted, selected, steepled, streeled, teaseled, teazeled, telfered, telneted, tweedled, tweedles, velveted, weltered.

+3 letters: blethered, decollete, deflected, delegated, delegatee, delegates, delineate, depletive, deselects, electrode, electroed, elevateds, eyeletted, kentledge, leafleted, leathered, leistered, neglected, prelected, realtered, reelected, reflected, regelated, relegated, resettled, resmelted, sheltered, skeltered, steelhead, sweltered, teaselled, teazelled, televised, telnetted, telphered, unelected, unsteeled.