delete
verb
[ dɪˈliːt ]
• remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it.
• "the passage was deleted"
Similar:
remove,
cut out,
take out,
edit out,
expunge,
excise,
eradicate,
cancel,
unpublish,
cross out,
strike out,
put a line through,
blue-pencil,
ink out,
score out,
scratch out,
obliterate,
white out,
rub out,
erase,
efface,
wipe out,
blot out,
kill,
dele,
Tippex out,
delete
noun
• a command or key on a computer which erases text.
• "you can use delete to remove a number of lines from your program"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘destroy’): from Latin delet- ‘blotted out, effaced’, from the verb delere .
