1. To get rid of something or to make it disappear: Such items as words, pictures, or computer files are just a few of the things that can be deleted from documents, recordings, computers, etc.

Sam asked the travel agent to delete his name from her reservation list because he wouldn't be able to go on the trip after all.

A woman was working on a computer in an office and the electronic device for storing and processing data suddenly disappeared, and she said, "All I did was hit the button that says delete and that is what happened."

2. Etymology: borrowed from Latin deletus; the past participle of delere, "to destroy, to blot out"; derivatives of the elements: de, "from, away" + linere, "to smear, to wipe". © ALL rights are reserved.

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That which is eliminated; especially, by having been blotted out, cut out, or erased.