Delete
Delete verb - To show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it.
Usage example: the teacher deleted the last line of the student's essay, wisely sensing that it lessened the impact
Kill is a synonym for delete. In some cases you can use "Kill" instead a verb "Delete". informal substitute
Kill
Kill verb - To show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it.
Usage example: I think that paragraph is irrelevant, so kill it
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| character | delete character | kill character |
| people | delete people | kill people |
| wife | delete wife | kill wife |
| someone | delete someone | kill someone |
| Other words: characters. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- In The Matrix: Path of Neo the Merovingian delete's three of his vampire mooks after a whole club of them fails to kill Neo.
Source: You Have Failed Me -
Delete: General Overson is coerced into helping the AI by its threat to kill his daughter, who has a heart implant which it can hack.
Source: I Have Your Wife -
In "Six Minus Six" Agent Six loses six years of memory saving Rex from a machine that was going to delete Rex's instead (because Rex apparently goes crazy if he resets, and if that happens Six has to kill him).
Source: Laser-Guided Amnesia
Cite this Source
Kill and Delete. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/delete/kill
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