different between expurgate vs delete

English

Etymology

From Latin expurg?tus, perfect passive participle of expurg? (“purge, cleanse, purify”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks.p?.?e?t/

Verb

expurgate (third-person singular simple present expurgates, present participle expurgating, simple past and past participle expurgated)

1. (transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.

   The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.

2. (transitive) To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.

   The publisher decided to expurgate the book, which meant removing the love scene.

Derived terms

• expurgator
• expurgatory
• expurgatorious

Related terms

Translations

See also

• bowdlerise

Latin

Participle

exp?rg?te

1. vocative masculine singular of exp?rg?tus

English

Etymology

From Latin d?l?tus, past participle of d?l?re (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from d?l?v?, originally perf. tense of d?linere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from d?- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??li?t/, /di?li?t/, /d??li?t/
• Hyphenation: de?lete
• Rhymes: -i?t

Verb

delete (third-person singular simple present deletes, present participle deleting, simple past and past participle deleted)

1. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. [from 1600s]

   Synonyms: erase, clear, strike, terminate, remove; see also Thesaurus:delete

   Antonyms: insert, main

2. (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.

Derived terms

• expletive deleted

Related terms

• deleterious
• deletion
• delible

Translations

Noun

delete (plural deletes)

1. (computing) A deletion.
   • 2003, Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein, Kevin T. Price, Database Access with Visual Basic .NET (page 30)

     Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.

2. (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.
3. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete

Further reading

• deletion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Adjective

delete

1. feminine plural of deleto

Latin

Verb

d?l?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?le?

Participle

d?l?te

1. vocative masculine singular of d?l?tus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?l?.t(?)i/
• Hyphenation: de?le?te
• Rhymes: -?t(?)i

Noun

delete m (plural deletes)

1. Delete (key)

Verb

delete

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of deletar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of deletar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of deletar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of deletar