delete

See also Delete

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈliːt/, /dəˈliːt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

delete (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of Delete.

   I lost the file when I accidentally hit delete.

Verb

delete (third-person singular simple present deletes, present participle deleting, simple past and past participle deleted)

1. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
2. (computing) To hide, conceal

Synonyms

• (to get rid of): erase, strike, terminate, cease existence, remove, rub out, strike out, obliterate, cancel, cross out, score, scrub, scrap, scratch, expunge, eliminate, blue-pencil, exclude, squelch

Antonyms

• (to get rid of): maintain

Related terms

• deleterious
• deletion

Translations

to remove

• Arabic: حذف (ar) (Hadhafa), يحذف (ar) (yaHdhifu) (present tense)
• Bulgarian: премахвам (bg) (premahvam), изтривам (bg) (iztrivam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刪除 (cmn), 删除 (cmn) (shānchú)

• Czech: vymazat, smazat
• Esperanto: forpreni (eo), forstreki (eo), eksigi (eo)
• Finnish: poistaa (fi)
• French: supprimer (fr)
• German: streichen (de), löschen (de)
• Hungarian: töröl (hu)
• Irish: scrios (ga)

• Italian: cancellare (it), eliminare (it)
• Japanese: 消す (けす, kesu), 削除する (さくじょする, sakujo-suru)
• Khmer: លុប (lup)
• Korean: 삭제하다 (sakjehada)
• Polish: usuwać (pl)
• Russian: удалять (ru) (udalját’)  impf., удалить (ru) (udalít’)  pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: sguab às (gd)
• Spanish: borrar (es)
• Turkish: silmek (tr)
• Welsh: dileu (cy)

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Latin

Verb

dēlēte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēleō

Participle

dēlēte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēlētus