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delete (verb), deletes; deleted; deleting
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.
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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".Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
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deleted (adjective)
That which is eliminated; especially, by having been blotted out, cut out, or erased.
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Skeleton: a bunch of bones with the person's body deleted.