Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to delete
Participle: deleted
Gerund: deleting
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | delete |
| you | delete |
| he;she;it | deletes |
| we | delete |
| you | delete |
| they | delete |
Perfect
| I | have deleted |
| you | have deleted |
| he;she;it | has deleted |
| we | have deleted |
| you | have deleted |
| they | have deleted |
Past
| I | deleted |
| you | deleted |
| he;she;it | deleted |
| we | deleted |
| you | deleted |
| they | deleted |
Pluperfect
| I | had deleted |
| you | had deleted |
| he;she;it | had deleted |
| we | had deleted |
| you | had deleted |
| they | had deleted |
Future
| I | will delete |
| you | will delete |
| he;she;it | will delete |
| we | will delete |
| you | will delete |
| they | will delete |
Future Perfect
| I | will have deleted |
| you | will have deleted |
| he;she;it | will have deleted |
| we | will have deleted |
| you | will have deleted |
| they | will have deleted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | delete |
| you | delete |
| he;she;it | delete |
| we | delete |
| you | delete |
| they | delete |
Perfect
| I | have deleted |
| you | have deleted |
| he;she;it | have deleted |
| we | have deleted |
| you | have deleted |
| they | have deleted |
Imperfect
| I | deleted |
| you | deleted |
| he;she;it | deleted |
| we | deleted |
| you | deleted |
| they | deleted |
Pluperfect
| I | had deleted |
| you | had deleted |
| he;she;it | had deleted |
| we | had deleted |
| you | had deleted |
| they | had deleted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would delete |
| you | would delete |
| he;she;it | would delete |
| we | would delete |
| you | would delete |
| they | would delete |
Perfect
| I | would have deleted |
| you | would have deleted |
| he;she;it | would have deleted |
| we | would have deleted |
| you | would have deleted |
| they | would have deleted |
Imperative
| you | delete |
| we | Let's delete |
| you | delete |
Verbs conjugated like 'delete'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'delete'
delate,
deplete,
behete,
belate,
belee,
belute,
bemete,
debate,
decede,
deeme,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material
- blue-pencil, cancel, clear, cross out, eliminate, erase, exclude, expunge, obliterate, remove, rub out, score, scrap, scratch, scrub, squelch, strike, strike out, terminate
- remove
- obliterate, destroy, cancel, dele, efface, eradicate, erase
Antonyms
- to remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material
- insert, maintain
- remove
- install, plant, deposit, place
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1495, from L.
deletus, pp. of
delere "destroy, blot out, efface," from
delevi, originally perf. tense of
delinere "to daub, erase by smudging," from
de- "from, away" +
linere "to smear, wipe."
2. From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.
3. Doublet of delible and deleble.
Verbs referencing "delete"
Portuguese
delir, Spanish
desleír, Dutch
deleten, Hindi
डिलीट करना, Hindi
डिलीट होना, Finnish with old forms
dellata.
Sample Sentences
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Early on in the model year [1968] Pontiac experienced some production problems [in producing polyurethane bumpers] regarding fit, matching paint color, and bonding the material to the base metal. As a result, 2,108 1968 GTOs left the factory with chrome bumpers borrowed from the LeMans. These cars had a special option on their order sheets called "Endura bumper delete." Everyone wanted the Endura bumpers and no one ordered that option of his or her own free will. As soon as Pontiac worked out the production problems the chrome bumpers disappeared for good and "Endura bumper delete" disappeared from the option list. [2009, Darwin Holmstrom, “Chapter 4: a maturing car for a maturing audience”, in GTO: Pontiac's Great One, Crestline Books, →ISBN, page 166:]
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Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me. [2020 November 20, “Enhance Arena positioning”, in Blizzard Forums (US):]
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"Go find this guy, Alex," Conch had said. "And delete him." [2008, Ted Bell, Assassin:]
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"[…]The less we discover about him, the more we are convinced he needs to be deleted..."
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"Yes. In other words I kill a terrorist, right?" [2013, Tim Corkery, Funny to Horror: Short Stories:]
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I'm a forty-something psychopath who thinks he has the right to delete anyone he sees fit. [2015, Shane Kuhn, The Intern's Handbook, page 220:]
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She either felt pity for him and put him out of pain, a ridiculous, untrue solution for pity and sorrow are delusions, or she was part of his triangle had to delete him before he spoke again, he had to be silenced. [2017, Bill Dixon, Dragonfire: A New World of Poems and Stories:]