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deletion

English

  1. 🔊 the act of deleting something written or printed
  2. 🔊 the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
    “an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors”
  3. 🔊 (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
  4. 🔊 any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

Spanish

  1. 🔊 borrado deletion
  2. 🔊 deleción deletion
  3. 🔊 supresión deletion

Similar words

excision cut omission abbreviation abridgment blot blotting blotting out blue-penciling bowdlerization cancel cancellation censoring censorship editing effacement erasure expunction expurgation obliteration omission scrubbing striking washing out