OXFORD DICTIONARY
dele, v. & n. Printing
--v.tr. (deled, deleing) delete or mark for deletion (a letter, word, etc., struck out of a text).
--n. a sign marking something to be deleted; a deletion.
L, imper. of delere: see DELETE
THESAURUS
dele
blot, blot out, cancel, cross out, delete, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, raze, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike out, wipe out
ROGET THESAURUS
dele
Obliteration
N
obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int,
dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.