Crossword-Solution: DELETE 6 letters, 164 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Delete v. t. To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

We have 164 clues for the answer “DELETE”

Clue Answers
4 Down "strike-out" button 1 answer
Remove from a computer file 1 answer
Backspace relative 1 answer
Banish to the Recycle Bin 1 answer
Cancel, as characters? 1 answer
Computer key for removing text 1 answer
Computer's removal key 1 answer
Control Alt ___ 1 answer
Control+Alt+___ 1 answer
Cut, as a sentence 1 answer
Cut, in editing 1 answer
Dispatch to the cutting room floor 1 answer
Drag to the trash, say 1 answer
End key neighbor 1 answer
End's neighbor, on some keyboards 1 answer
Erase computer files 1 answer
Erase electronically 1 answer
Erase, as a file 1 answer
Erase, as computer files 1 answer
Erase, like a file 1 answer
Get rid of, electronically 1 answer
Have away with words? 1 answer
Insert neighbor, on PCs 1 answer
Key below "insert" on a PC 1 answer
Key near Insert 1 answer
Key similar to Backspace 1 answer
Key to strike to strike 1 answer
Kill a few characters 1 answer
Knock out, as a character 1 answer
Letter-erasing key 1 answer
Move to the trash folder 1 answer
Nullifying keystroke 1 answer
OBLITERATE letter, word, passage, etc. 1 answer
One way to kill characters? 1 answer
Opt not to save 1 answer
Option with a trash can icon 1 answer
PC key below "Insert" 1 answer
PC key near Insert 1 answer
PC take-out key 1 answer
Part of a "three-finger salute" on a computer 1 answer
Purge, in a way 1 answer
Removal key 1 answer
Remove as a file 1 answer
Remove a file 1 answer
Remove a file, in a way 1 answer
Remove from a computer document 1 answer
Remove from a memo 1 answer
Remove from a text 1 answer
Remove from an email 1 answer
Remove from one's computer 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DELETE (5)

Standard usage would make this Then delete a line from the file by typing "dd." but that would be very bad -- because the reader would be prone to type the string d-d-dot, and it happens that in `vi(1)' dot repeats the last command accepted.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The hacker later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type `delete *$' twice.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Someone got the bright idea that if packets were long and they stuck the headers on the end (they became trailers), the receiving machine could put the packet on the beginning of a page boundary and if the trailer was OK merely delete it and transfer control of the page with no memory moves involved.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992
Once selected a large block of text can be deleted with the delete key or moved by issuing the "cut" command (look for a function key or command on the "edit" menu) and then the "paste" command.
Email 101 John Goodwin 1993

Quotes with DELETE (3)

I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly
Jenny Han To All the Boys I've Loved Before
The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isn’t wrong, when you know exactly how much he’s fought those feelings. People can’t control matters of the heart, Warren. They can only control their actions, which is exactly what Ridge did. He lost control once for ten seconds, but after that, every single time temptation reared its ugly head, he walked in the other direction. The only t…
Colleen Hoover Maybe Someday
Iniisip ni Lucas kung gaano kalaki ang kapangyarihan ng isang writer. Sa pamamagitan ng mga salita ay kaya niyang patigilin ang dyip, ilabas ang lihim ng mga pasahero, pabuhusin ang ulan upang linisin ang mga basura sa palibot, ikulong ang mga opisyal na corrupt at tuluyang i-delete sa bansa ang kahirapan.
Ricky Lee Para Kay B
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 281 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).