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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To remove by striking out or canceling: deleted some unnecessary words in the first draft. See Synonyms at erase.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To blot out; expunge; erase.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of Delete.
  2. v. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
  3. v. computing To hide, conceal

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. cut or eliminate
  2. v. remove or make invisible
  3. v. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

Etymologies

  1. From Latin deletus, past participle of delere ("destroy, blot out, efface"), from delevi, originally perf. tense of delinere ("to daub, erase by smudging"), from de- ("from, away") + linere ("to smear, wipe"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin dēlēre, dēlēt-, to wipe out. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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