to remove text, data, or a file so that it is no longer saved or visible
Before sending the email, she decided to delete the last sentence because it sounded harsh.
My younger brother accidentally deleted all the photos on his phone.
✦ From Latin deletus, past participle of delere “to wipe out, erase.”
the key on a computer keyboard that removes the character to the right of the cursor or erases selected items
She hit the Delete to remove the extra character.
A sticky note next to his keyboard reminds him not to press the Delete by mistake.
✦ Named from the function of the key, which performs a delete operation in computing.
