'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]

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