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delete
verb
    deleted, deleting
    1. To rub out, score out or remove something, especially from something written or printed.
      Thesaurus: erase, strike out, cross out, blot out, cancel, edit, blue-pencil, remove, expunge, obliterate, efface.
Derivative: deletion
    A rubbing out.
    Something rubbed out or removed.
Etymology: 16c in this sense; 15c, meaning ‘to destroy': from Latin delere to blot out.



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