Usually means: Remove or erase something permanently.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word DELETE:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Delete, delete: Merriam-Webster
  2. delete: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delete: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delete: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delete: Vocabulary.com
  6. Delete, delete: Wordnik
  7. delete: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Delete, delete: Wiktionary
  9. delete: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delete: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delete: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Delete, delete: Dictionary.com
  13. delete: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. delete: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DELETE (HTTP), DELETE, Delete (DMA's song), Delete (SQL), Delete (disambiguation), Delete (miniseries), Delete: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Delete: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. delete: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. delete: Rhymezone
  19. delete: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. delete: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. delete: FreeDictionary.org
  22. delete: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. delete: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. delete: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. delete: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. delete: Legal dictionary
  3. delete: Financial dictionary

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. delete: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. delete: Netlingo
  3. delete: CCI Computer
  4. Delete: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. delete: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. delete: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delete: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delete: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (delete)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
▸ verb:  (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
▸ noun:  (computing) A deletion.
▸ noun:  (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
▸ noun:  (computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
▸ noun:  (computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete [(computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.]

Similar:
erase, cancel, blue-pencil, destroy, remove, wipe out, expunge, uninstall, dispose, dispose of, more...

Opposite:
add, create, insert, restore, retain

Types:
cut, copy, paste, shift-delete, ctrl-delete, delete key, more...

Phrases:
Delete key, ctrl alt delete, control alt delete, speedy delete, Create, read, update and delete, more...

Adjectives:
select, click, alt, ctrl, public, void, new, shift, last, procedure, confirm

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Similar:
erase, cancel, blue-pencil, destroy, remove, wipe out, expunge, uninstall, dispose, dispose of, more...

Opposite:
add, create, insert, restore, retain

Types:
cut, copy, paste, shift-delete, ctrl-delete, delete key, more...

Phrases:
Delete key, ctrl alt delete, control alt delete, speedy delete, Create, read, update and delete, Delete character, Don't Delete the Kisses, Garden of Delete, delete forever, delete before publishing, more...

Adjectives:
select, click, alt, ctrl, public, void, new, shift, last, procedure, confirm

Colors:
    red,     black,     gray,     dark red,     maroon, more...



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