Deleting

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Delete \De*lete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deleted}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Deleting}.] [L. deletus, p. p. of delere to destroy. Cf.
     1st {Dele}.]
     To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
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           I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which
           do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have
           deleted eight.                           --Aytoun.
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