delete
Forms
- present (v1)
- delete
- past (v2)
- deleted
- past participle (v3)
- deleted
- present participle
- deleting
- 3rd person singular
- deletes
- Plural
- deletes
Definitions
1.To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
2.To defeat or dominate.(slang)
- Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.
3.To kill or murder.(slang)
- "Go find this guy, Alex," Conch had said. "And delete him."
- I'm a forty-something psychopath who thinks he has the right to delete anyone he sees fit.
1.A deletion.
- Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.
2.A remainder of a music or video release.
3.Alternative letter-case form of Delete.
4.The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4619
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Synonyms
Etymology
From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.