DELETE
Dictionary entry overview: What does delete mean?
• DELETE (verb)
The verb DELETE has 3 senses:
1. remove or make invisible
2. wipe out magnetically recorded information
3. cut or eliminate
Familiarity information: DELETE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DELETE (verb)
Meaning:
Remove or make invisible
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
delete; cancel
Context example:
Please delete my name from your list
Hypernyms (to "delete" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "delete"):
efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
excise; expunge; scratch; strike (remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Wipe out magnetically recorded information
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
delete; erase
Hypernyms (to "delete" is one way to...):
take away; take out (take out or remove)
Domain category:
recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "delete"):
demagnetise; demagnetize (erase (a magnetic storage device))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cut or eliminate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
blue-pencil; delete; edit
Context example:
she edited the juiciest scenes
Hypernyms (to "delete" is one way to...):
censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
