deleted

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of delete.

   He deleted the entire chapter and started writing it again.

   All the messages were deleted before the auditors arrived.

   Note

   One regular -ed spelling does both jobs. Standing alone it is the simple past (she deleted the file). After have or be it is the participle (has deleted, was deleted). In the be-position it begins to shade into the adjective for what was cut, so a phrase like the scenes were deleted can be read either way.

2. 2
   adjective

   Removed or eliminated, and therefore missing from the finished version.

   The director released a cut with all the deleted footage restored.

   A deleted paragraph can sometimes be recovered from an earlier draft.

   Similarremoved, cut, erased

   Oppositeincluded

   Note

   Film supplies the familiar collocation: deleted scenes, meaning footage shot and then cut before release. As an adjective it usually stands before its noun. After be it is hard to tell apart from the passive participle. The comparative more deleted exists on paper, but something is generally either cut or kept, so the word rarely needs grading.

3. 3
   adjectiveslang

   Killed or murdered, as in underworld slang.

   Two members of the rival crew were deleted in a single night.

   He swore the informant would be deleted before he could testify.

   Similarkilled, murdered, whacked

   Note

   This is underworld slang that treats a killing as an erasure: a person is removed the way a file is. It belongs in crime talk and fiction. In plain reporting, killed is the right word. Watch the verb's online slang as well. A player who got deleted in a game was beaten, not killed, so context decides how dark the word is.

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