{
    "term": "delete",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "delete",
            "heSheIt": "deletes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "deleted",
        "pastParticiple": "deleted",
        "ingForm": "deleting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to remove something that has been written or printed, or that has been stored on a computer",
            "sensetop": "delete something (from something)",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Your name has been deleted from the list."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This command deletes files from the directory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mr/Mrs/Ms (**delete as appropriate**)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Delete the word ‘it’ and insert ‘them’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The file had been accidentally deleted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I deleted your last email by mistake—could you send it again?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers", "Phones, email and the internet"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["accidentally", "inadvertently", "automatically"],
                "preposition": ["from"],
                "phrases": ["delete as appropriate"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːt/",
                "audio": "de/delete/delete__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːts/",
                "audio": "de/delete/deletes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːtɪd/",
                "audio": "de/delete/deleted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/delete/deleting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːt/",
                "audio": "de/delete/delete__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːts/",
                "audio": "de/delete/deletes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːtɪd/",
                "audio": "de/delete/deleted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈliːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/delete/deleting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘destroy’): from Latin delet- ‘blotted out, effaced’, from the verb delere."
}