Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived.
- transitive verb To remove from a document or record: synonym: erase.
- transitive verb To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To blot out; expunge; erase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
Delete . - verb To
remove , get rid of orerase , especially written or printed material, or data on a computer. - verb computing To
hide ,conceal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cut or eliminate
- verb remove or make invisible
- verb wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Note that you create a window using the new_ function and delete it using the delete_ function
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Where to start … I mean, Alan Greenspan is a socialistic, Keynesian Loving, politician pleasing, power and greed driven ** explicit delete, explicit delete**, piece of ** explicit delete**.
unknown title 2008
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Where to start … I mean, Alan Greenspan is a socialistic, Keynesian Loving, politician pleasing, power and greed driven ** explicit delete, explicit delete**, piece of ** explicit delete**.
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After we figure all that out, it's just a matter of compiling our delete statement and running the query. public function delete ($table, $where = null) if ($this - > tableExists ($table)) {if ($where = = null) {$delete = 'DELETE'. $table;} else {$delete =
doggdot.us 2009
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Meanwhile, the part I didn't delete is up to 2000 words.
Bad Angst Bunny...Go Away amberfocus 2009
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Nich, I take your point about not being able to delete from the iPod.
Going against my better judgment and being proved right and wrong at the same time Norfolk Blogger 2009
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It keeps 90 days worth of backup data on a different server, so anything that I delete is really still available for 90 days.
Backup Maker Offers Dead Simple Backup Creation | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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PPS: Apparently mass-delete is new with iPhone 2.0.
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Pressing delete is so satisfying. on June 4, 2008 at 2: 46 pm | Reply Spitting Feathers
Hair and Teeth on the Swamp « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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So we met at 6pm in the Bay Horse (6. 50pm if your name was Simon), which is another bar we can safely delete from the “future visits” list: the beer garden is literally on the main road and the traffic is HEAVY.
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It does suck to be in a place where you just need some compassion and human connection and are feeling really low, and then to have that up and down cycle displayed through whatever post or delete you make get turned into an accusation of something intentionally bad like dirty delete. Sorry that happened to you. Definitely can feel like getting kicked while you're down.
I'm frustrated that so-called "dirty delete" rules can sometimes make groups unsafe for people with trauma PsychologicalCut6061 2025
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Many forums are starting to implement policies that ban members that "dirty delete" posts. Dirty deleting, for those who are unfamiliar, is when an OP starts an engagement and after receiving any type of pushback deletes the post in response.
Dirty deleting of questions Jeffrey Evans 2025
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When someone starts to see how their original comment could have been worded differently or that they didn’t actually believe what they said because they didn’t understand the topic well enough to believe anything, they often want to make their shame or guilt go away. So they dirty delete.
Don’t ‘Dirty Delete’—It’s Rude AF And You Need To Own Your Sh*t 2020
vanishedone commented on the word delete
The Wordie Paradox strikes again: fittingly, delete is 404'd.
June 1, 2009