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1. Remove or make invisible
   "Please delete my name from your list";
   - cancel
    
2. (recording) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
   "Who deleted the files from my hard disk?";
   - erase
    
3. Cut or eliminate
   "she deleted the juiciest scenes";
   - edit, blue-pencil

1. (computing) key on a computer keyboard for deleting text or other objects that are selected or at the current cursor position
   - delete key

Derived forms: deleting, deleted, deletes

Type of: censor, fish out [informal], remove, take, take away, take out, withdraw

Antonym: tape

Encyclopedia: Delete