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How to pronounce delete in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms erase
Type of take away, take out
Has types demagnetize, demagnetise
Type Words
Synonyms cancel
Type of withdraw, take away, take, remove
Has types rub out, efface, erase, excise, expunge, score out, scratch, strike, wipe off
Derivation deletion


Please delete my name from your list.
Type Words
Synonyms blue-pencil, edit
Type of censor
Derivation deletion

Examples of delete

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Kershner filed the application to delete that section of zoning law in December.
From the thenewstribune.com
The badge-delete option remains, so nobody else need know you're doing your bit.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
Once you've chosen the items to remove, click Next and AdAware will delete them.
From the chron.com
Please turn off or delete your e-mail signature containing personal information.
From the sacbee.com
Iranian Web sites reported the raids and arrests, only to delete the news later.
From the washingtonpost.com
Some users even threatened to delete their account if the policy isn't reversed.
From the buffalonews.com
So naturally, that's what Marvel set out to delete with its first X-Men prequel.
From the kentucky.com
You may find an option there to delete all spam in the folder in one fell swoop.
From the newsobserver.com
And then every night she would go back and delete everything she'd just created.
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More examples
  • Remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
  • Erase: wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
  • Edit: cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"
  • (deletion) omission: any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
  • (deletion) (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
  • (deletion) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
  • Delete is the second album by Coercion.
  • In the C++ programming language, the delete operator calls the destructor of the given argument, and returns memory allocated by new back to the heap. A call to delete must be made for every call to new to avoid a memory leak. ...
  • This is a list of characters that have appeared on the PBS Kids GO! series Cyberchase.