verb
- third-person singular present tense of 'dele'; to mark for deletion or remove (text, a passage, etc.) from a document or manuscript
Usage: printing and editing term; often used with proofreading marks
Examples
- The editor deles the redundant paragraph from the manuscript.
- She deles the typo and marks it with a proofreading symbol.
- The publisher deles outdated references before reprinting.
- He deles unnecessary words to tighten the prose.
- The copyeditor deles the duplicate sentence.