delete

Delete means to remove or destroy something, specifically something that is written, printed, or stored on a computer.

Before the Internet, delete often referred to removing something from drafts of books, letters, newspapers, and other materials. Today, delete often refers to either hitting a key on a keyboard that erases text or telling a computer to get rid of a file, as by placing a document in the trash can. A person may also want to delete (deactivate) a social media account.

• Real-life examples: When you’re writing an essay, you might delete some paragraphs and add others. To better use data storage space, you might delete all of your junk email or delete a bunch of photos from your smartphone.
• Used in a sentence: The reporter deleted the final two paragraphs of the story in order to make it shorter. 

The first records of delete come from around 1485. It comes from the Latin ��ŧ��ŧ����, meaning “to destroy.”

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• deletion (noun)
• deletable (adjective)
• redelete (verb)
• undeleted (adjective)

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• erase
• remove
• expunge
• destroy
• eliminate

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• deletion

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• computer
• text
• draft
• file
• email
• picture
• keyboard

Delete is a common word that most often refers to destroying or erasing something on a computer.

Time to film exactly what I filmed yesterday and NOT DELETE THE FILES

— Chloe Donald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@ChloeDonald_)

When downloading a PDF, if it ends with .exe, delete it. It's probably a virus.

— Fact (@Fact)

Being an adult is just constantly deleting emails from your inbox

— Meemze (@MimiLei_)

True or False?

If you delete a text message, you are erasing it from your device.