'Delete' definitions:
Definition of 'delete'
From: WordNet
verb
Remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [syn: delete, cancel]
verb
Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" [syn: erase, delete] [ant: record, tape]
verb
Cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit, blue-pencil, delete]
Definition of 'Delete'
From: GCIDE
- Delete \De*lete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Deleting.] [L. deletus, p. p. of delere to destroy. Cf. 1st Dele.] To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit. [1913 Webster]
- I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. --Aytoun. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'delete'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abrupt,
- alienate,
- annul,
- black out,
- blot,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bowdlerize,
- call off,
- cancel,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- censor,
- complete,
- cross out,
- cut,
- cut adrift,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- dele,
- depart,
- disarticulate,
- disconnect,
- disengage,
- disjoin,
- disjoint,
- dispose of,
- dissociate,
- disunite,
- divide,
- divorce,
- drop the curtain,
- edit,
- edit out,
- efface,
- eject,
- eliminate,
- end off,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- estrange,
- exclude,
- expel,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- extinguish,
- finalize,
- finish,
- fold up,
- get it over,
- get over with,
- get through with,
- give the quietus,
- isolate,
- kayo,
- kibosh,
- kill,
- knock out,
- KO,
- leave,
- obliterate,
- omit,
- part,
- perfect,
- polish off,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pull out,
- put paid to,
- raze,
- remove,
- rescind,
- rub out,
- rule out,
- scrag,
- scratch,
- scratch out,
- segregate,
- separate,
- sequester,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shoot down,
- shut off,
- split,
- sponge,
- sponge out,
- stand aloof,
- stand apart,
- stand aside,
- step aside,
- strike,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- subtract,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- uncouple,
- unyoke,
- void,
- wipe out,
- withdraw,
- zap