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Usually means: Remove or erase something permanently.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word delete:

General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. Delete, delete: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. delete: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delete: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delete: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delete: Vocabulary.com
  6. Delete, delete: Wordnik
  7. delete: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Delete, delete: Wiktionary
  9. delete: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delete: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delete: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Delete, delete: Dictionary.com
  13. delete: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. delete: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DELETE (HTTP), DELETE, Delete (DMA's song), Delete (SQL), Delete (disambiguation), Delete (miniseries), Delete: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Delete: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. delete: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. delete: Rhymezone
  19. delete: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. delete: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. delete: Free Dictionary
  22. delete: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. delete: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. delete: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. delete: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. delete: Legal dictionary
  3. delete: Financial dictionary

Computing dictionaries Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. delete: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. delete: Netlingo
  3. delete: CCI Computer
  4. Delete: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. delete: Encyclopedia

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. delete: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delete: Idioms

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delete: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deleted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
verb:  (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
noun:  (computing) A deletion.
noun:  (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
noun:  (computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
noun:  (computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.
noun:  (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete [(computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.]

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to remove,   to remove something,   to erase,   erase completely,   backspace over,   quickly remove,   swipe away,   to completely erase,   remove something,   to erase something


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