dele

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: de=le

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dele, v. & n. Printing
--v.tr. (deled, deleing) delete or mark for deletion (a letter, word, etc., struck out of a text).
--n. a sign marking something to be deleted; a deletion.

Etymology

L, imper. of delere: see DELETE

THESAURUS

dele

blot, blot out, cancel, cross out, delete, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, raze, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike out, wipe out

ROGET THESAURUS

dele

Obliteration

N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.