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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sign indicating that something is to be removed from printed or written matter.
  2. v. To remove, especially from printed or written matter; delete.
  3. v. To mark with a sign indicating deletion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A Middle English form of deal.
  2. n. An obsolete form of dell.
  3. Take out; remove: a word used in proof-reading as a direction to printers to remove a superfluous letter or word, and usually expressed by its initial letter in the distinctive script form , or some variation of it.

Wiktionary

  1. v. printing to delete
  2. n. printing a sign signifying deletion

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Print.) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: �.
  2. v. (Print.) To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.
  3. v. obsolete To deal; to divide; to distribute.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo ("delete"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin dēlē, second person sing. imperative of dēlēre, to delete. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. erase
  1. remove
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  1. delete
  1. deal
  1. divide
  1. distribute

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