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.
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Delete this name from the list.
When the movie was shown on TV all the swearwords had been deleted.
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Another post, now deleted, claimed a bake sale at a Delaware polling place was intended to sway votes, a potential violation of election law.
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Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Newsweek has contacted the Trump campaign via email for comment but has not been able to contact Meyer, who has deleted all of his social media accounts.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Concerns about hacking sparked false claims from conservative pundits that voting machines deleted Trump votes and changed them to President Joe Biden.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
Lack of access to backups can happen because of physical damage to infrastructure, data corruption or an attacker either encrypting or deleting them.
—Simon Jelley, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Newsweek has contacted the Trump campaign via email for comment but has not been able to contact Meyer, who has deleted all of his social media accounts.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Concerns about hacking sparked false claims from conservative pundits that voting machines deleted Trump votes and changed them to President Joe Biden.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
Lack of access to backups can happen because of physical damage to infrastructure, data corruption or an attacker either encrypting or deleting them.
—Simon Jelley, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delete. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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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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