delete

verbnouncommon in dialogue

//dɪˈliːt//
//diˈliːt//
//dəˈliːt//

To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.

verb

1
To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
2
slangTo defeat or dominate.
Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.
3
slangTo kill or murder.
"Go find this guy, Alex," Conch had said. "And delete him."
"[…]The less we discover about him, the more we are convinced he needs to be deleted..." […] "Yes. In other words I kill a terrorist, right?"
I'm a forty-something psychopath who thinks he has the right to delete anyone he sees fit.
She either felt pity for him and put him out of pain, a ridiculous, untrue solution for pity and sorrow are delusions, or she was part of his triangle had to delete him before he spoke again, he had to be silenced.

Etymology

From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious. Doublet of delible and deleble.

noun

1
A deletion.
Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.
2
A remainder of a music or video release.
One CRIA official pegs the total record sales of deletes and imports as high as 30 percent for 1976
The industry also continues to discuss how the new GATT will serve to prevent a flood of deletes into the market
Brian Robertson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Assn. (CRIA), says the flood of deletes could be more harmful than the last wave […]
3
The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
4
Variant of DeleteAlternative letter-case form of Delete.

Forms

plural: deletes
past tense: deleted
past participle: deleted
present participle: deleting
third person singular: deletes

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