verb
- past tense of dele; marked for deletion or removed (especially in editing or proofreading)
Usage: chiefly used in editing, publishing, and proofreading contexts; archaic or specialized usage
Examples
- The editor deled the redundant paragraph from the manuscript.
- Several sentences were deled during the revision process.
- The proofreader deled the typographical error with a red pen.
- All references to the outdated policy were deled from the document.