delete

v. totally remove, erase

An SQL DELETE statement removes one or more records from a table. A subset may be defined for deletion using a condition, otherwise all records are removed.
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The term Deletion may have the following specialized meanings:File deletion, a way of removing a file from a computer's file systemDeletion (genetics), deletion of a gene or chromosome segment, symbolized in the literature by a Δ symbolDeletion (music industry), a term for removing a record from a label's catalogDeletion (linguistics), a phonological process that allows for the elimination of a segment Delete may refer to:Delete key, a key on modern computer keyboards which erases textDelete (SQL), Delete for SQLDEL, the delete control code in the C0 and C1 control codesdelete, a built-in operator in the C++ programming language.
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Verb
1. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
(synonym) cancel
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off
(derivation) deletion, excision, cut
2. wipe out magnetically recorded information
(synonym) erase
(hypernym) take away, take out
(hyponym) demagnetize, demagnetise
(classification) recording, transcription
3. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"
(synonym) edit, blue-pencil
(hypernym) censor
(derivation) deletion

v. delete, totally remove, erase

(v. t.)
To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.