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
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “delete” as a verb can have the following definitions:
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 The magazine first amended and then unpublished the article. |
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. |
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