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Delete vs Indelible - What's the difference?

delete | indelible |

As a noun delete

is a key that may be pressed to delete something (including text or files) from a computer.

As an adjective indelible is

having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.

delete

English

(Deletion)

Noun

(-)
  • I lost the file when I accidentally hit delete .
  • A remainder of a music or video release.
  • Verb

    (delet)
  • To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
  • (computer) To hide, conceal
  • Synonyms

    * (to get rid of) erase, strike, terminate, cease existence, remove, rub out, strike out, obliterate, cancel, cross out, score, scrub, scrap, scratch, expunge, eliminate, blue-pencil, exclude, squelch

    Antonyms

    * (to get rid of) insert, maintain

    indelible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
  • This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
    This stain on my shirt is indelible .
  • incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
  • That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
  • * 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), " The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
  • During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
  • incapable of being annulled
  • * Sprat
  • They are endued with indelible power from above.

    Synonyms

    * unerasable

    Antonyms

    * delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertable