VERB | contact | delete, cancel | remove or make invisible |
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communication | delete, erase | wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | |
change | delete, edit, blue-pencil | cut / cut or eliminate |
Sounds | dihliy't | |
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Rhymes | aesthete ... worksheet: 76 rhymes with iyt... |
Meaning | Remove or make invisible. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Example | "Please delete my name from your list" | |
Synonym | cancel | |
Narrower | erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off | Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing |
strike, scratch, expunge, excise | Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | |
Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
Spanish | anular, borrar, eliminar, suprimir, tachar | |
Catalan | anul·lar, eliminar, suprimir | |
Nouns | deletion | the act of deleting something written or printed |
deletion | the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage |
Meaning | wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonym | erase | |
Category | recording, transcription | The act of making a record (especially an audio record) |
Narrower | demagnetize, demagnetise | Erase (a magnetic storage device) |
Broader | take away, take out | take out or remove |
Opposite | record, tape | Register electronically |
Spanish | anular, borrar, eliminar, suprimir, tachar | |
Catalan | anul·lar, eliminar, esborrar, passar ratlla, ratllar, suprimir |
Meaning | cut / cut or eliminate. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | edit, blue-pencil | |
Broader | censor | subject to political, religious, or moral censorship |
Spanish | borrar, censurar, editar | |
Catalan | suprimir | |
Nouns | deletion | the act of deleting something written or printed |
deletion | the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage |
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