Deleted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Taken out, erased, or wiped away so that it no longer exists in a document, file, or collection
2. Having been removed or struck out, especially from written or stored material
3. Made to disappear by being cancelled, cut out, or erased from a record or text

Etymology: The word "deleted" is simply the past tense and past participle of "delete", so the story belongs to the verb. Its ancestor is Latin "delere", meaning to destroy or blot out, and the Latin verb was built from "de-" ("away") and "linere" ("to smear"). The original image is therefore one of smearing something away, a daubed wax tablet or manuscript rubbed out. English took the verb with that sense around 1495. Its modern life is far more mechanical. In the 1960s, the word became common in ordering the absence of features in products such as automobiles, where a buyer could ask for a car with the radio "deleted". The computing sense, covering the removal of data or files, first appears around 1977 in the journal Software: Practice & Experience.

Synonyms: removed, erased, discarded

Antonyms: added, included