deleted; deleting
: to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing
delete a passage in a manuscript
delete a computer file
The email was accidentally deleted.
Examples of delete in a Sentence
Delete this name from the list.
When the movie was shown on TV all the swearwords had been deleted.
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Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Once the White House realized the outrage was real, the post was deleted.
—Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Zarin deleted the post almost immediately from her Instagram on Sunday night, and has turned off her comments on her grid posts, but the video was captured and posted in full by content creator Gibson Johns.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
The overwhelming negative reaction to her remarks forced Zarin to delete her video, and her own daughter even took to social media to praise Bad Bunny’s performance later on.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for delete
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“Delete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delete. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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delete
verb
de·lete
di-ˈlēt 
deleted; deleting
: to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing
delete a part of the story
delete a computer file
deletion
noun
di-ˈlē-shən
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