Definitions for delete

delete de·lete

Spelling: [dih-leet]
IPA: /dɪˈlit/

Delete is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in delete (deeelt).

Definitions for delete

verb (used with object)

  1. to strike out or remove (something written or printed); cancel; erase; expunge.

Origin of delete

1485-95; Latin dēlētus (past participle of dēlēre to destroy), equivalent to dēl- destroy + -ē- thematic vowel + -tus past participle suffix

Examples for delete

Maybe I should just delete it, take temptation out of your way.

Of course, the incentive for the Gingrich team would be not to delete the phony accounts.

The Navy captain responded to the text from Bissonnette with the words, “delete me.”

“Quit it, delete it, cease it,” Chauncey Delarouse admonished testily.

They were to delete him from the category of those who might be taken.

It was curtailed, but delete it as one would, it was still too long.

Or perhaps just delete your social media accounts altogether.

Or, I should say, why did Facebook delete my account three times?

Ultimately, all it took was the mere mention of a lawyer for the perpetrator to delete the accounts and disappear completely.

Page 102, middle, delete comma after them; insert comma after nave.

Word Value for delete
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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