DELETE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DELETE?

Need another word that means the same as “delete”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “delete” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Delete” are: erase, cancel, blue-pencil, edit, remove, cut out, take out, edit out, expunge, excise, eradicate, unpublish

Delete as a Verb

Definitions of "Delete" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “delete” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Remove (data) from a computer's memory.
• Remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it.
• Cut or eliminate.
• Remove (a product, especially a recording) from the catalogue of those available for purchase.
• (of a section of genetic code, or its product) be lost or excised from a nucleic acid or protein sequence.
• Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information.
• Remove or make invisible.

Synonyms of "Delete" as a verb (12 Words)

blue-pencil	Cut or eliminate.
cancel	Abolish or make void (a financial obligation. He was forced to cancel his visit.
cut out	Shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of.
edit	Be editor of a newspaper or magazine. The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years.
edit out	Cut or eliminate.
eradicate	Destroy completely, as if down to the roots. This disease has been eradicated from the world.
erase	Rub out or remove (writing or marks. The file has been erased from the hard disk.
excise	Charge excise on goods. The surgeon excised the tumor.
expunge	Obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant. The kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory.
remove	Remove something concrete as by lifting pushing or taking off or remove something abstract. Customs officials removed documents from the premises.
take out	Be a student of a certain subject.
unpublish	Make (content that has previously been published online) unavailable to the public. The magazine first amended and then unpublished the article.

Usage Examples of "Delete" as a verb

• The passage was deleted.
• Their EMI release has already been deleted.
• If one important gene is deleted from an animal's DNA, other genes can stand in.
• Any program in memory will be deleted before the new one is loaded.
• Please delete my name from your list.

Associations of "Delete" (30 Words)

abolish	Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution. Slavery was abolished in the mid 19th century in America and in Russia.
abrogate	Evade (a responsibility or duty. A proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike.
abrogation	The repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement.
annihilate	Destroy utterly; obliterate. A fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated.
annul	Cancel officially. The elections were annulled by the general amid renewed protests.
cancel	A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat. The electric fields may cancel each other out.
cull	An inferior or surplus livestock animal selected for culling. Cull the sick members of the herd.
cutout	A switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload.
decimate	Drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something. Public transport has been decimated.
efface	Cause (a memory or emotion) to disappear completely. To efface oneself is not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake.
eliminate	Eliminate from the body. This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration.
eradicate	Destroy completely; put an end to. This disease has been eradicated from the world.
erase	Remove all traces of; destroy or obliterate. The magic of the landscape erased all else from her mind.
excise	Charge excise on goods. The rate of excise duty on spirits.
expulsion	The action or process of forcing someone to leave a place. The expulsion of pus from the pimple.
expunge	Obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant. The kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory.
exterminate	Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many. They use poison to exterminate moles.
extirpate	Surgically remove (an organ. Timber wolves were extirpated from New England more than a century ago.
nullify	Declare invalid. Judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions.
obliterate	Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing. The special stamp should be placed on the left hand side and not be used to obliterate the postage stamp.
override	Be more important than. This commitment should override all other considerations.
recantation	A statement that one no longer holds a particular opinion or belief; a retraction. Every writer interprets Galileo s recantation in a different way.
remove	Remove from a position or an office. A man is removed to the tribal district of his forbears.
repeal	Cancel officially. The legislation was repealed five months later.
rescind	Revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement. The government eventually rescinded the directive.
rescission	The revocation, cancellation, or repeal of a law, order, or agreement. The plaintiff agreed to the rescission of the agreement.
revocable	Capable of being revoked or annulled. A revocable order.
revoke	The mistake of not following suit when able to do so. He revoked the ban on smoking.
riddance	The action of getting rid of a troublesome or unwanted person or thing. The new movement emphasized discipline not riddance or punishment as a method of solving the criminal problem.
uproot	Remove or destroy completely; eradicate. Uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden.