Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See deleble.

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  • adjective That can be deleted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being deleted

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Examples

  • A man who put his people's interests far ahead oh his personal political ambitions. tHere are people who live in delible marks on the sands of history and are called revolutionaries.

    Message of condolences 2003

  • They baptized far and near, and yet taught nowhere what was the formal, material, efficient, and final cause of baptism, nor made the least mention of delible and indelible characters.

    In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

  • It was difficult to tell, when people were young and their cheek-lines were still pencilled and delible.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • On Cavina himself their impression was less delible, for did he not submit himself to the

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

  • For the Ranger had found a faint boot-track, and with amazing pains he was following this delible record of guilt.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • And these are the three women who have influenced my life, who fought in me then for mastery; one from out the unchangeable past, the others in the tangible and delible present.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • And these are the three women who have influenced my life, who fought in me then for mastery; one from out the unchangeable past, the others in the tangible and delible present.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • And these are the three women who have influenced my life, who fought in me then for mastery; one from out the unchangeable past, the others in the tangible and delible present.

    Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • They baptized far and near, and yet taught nowhere what was the formal, material, efficient, and final cause of baptism, nor made the least mention of delible and indelible characters.

    The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • Distressfully, i culturally ameda breast pump voluntarily what darfur me, and turbulent venerableness to the delible, i do franck askew overpressure than stradavarius.

    Rational Review 2009

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