Hypertext Webster Gateway: "delete"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Delete \De*lete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deleted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Deleting}.] [L. deletus, p. p. of delere to destroy. Cf.
1st {Dele}.]
To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which
do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have
deleted eight. --Aytoun.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
delete
v 1: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your
list" [syn: {cancel}]
2: wipe out magnetically recorded information [syn: {erase}]
[ant: {record}]
3: edit, delete, or revise; of books, etc. [syn: {blue-pencil}]
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