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Definition of "delete" []

  • To remove by striking out or canceling: deleted some unnecessary words in the first draft. See Synonyms at erase. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "delete" in a sentence
  • "Note that you create a window using the new_ function and delete it using the delete_ function"
  • "Where to start … I mean, Alan Greenspan is a socialistic, Keynesian Loving, politician pleasing, power and greed driven ** explicit delete, explicit delete**, piece of ** explicit delete**."
  • "After we figure all that out, it's just a matter of compiling our delete statement and running the query. public function delete ($table, $where = null) if ($this - > tableExists ($table)) {if ($where = = null) {$delete = 'DELETE'. $table;} else {$delete ="