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revdel

revdel noun: the action of deleting revisions of a page from public view, a function available to administrators.

Noun

revdel (plural revdels)

  1. (Internet) The action of deleting revisions of a page from public view, a function available to administrators.
    • RevisionDelete (also known as RevDel or RevDelete) is a feature that allows administrators to remove individual entries in a page history or log from public view.
    • Nope, it's not an edit requiring suppression as defined by that page. Perhaps we need a Wikipedia:Requests for revdel page.

Verb

revdel (third-person singular simple present revdels, present participle revdeling or revdelling, simple past and past participle revdeled or revdelled)

  1. (Internet) To delete revisions of a page from public view.
    • User blocked and relevant edits revdelled.
    • A copy violation was added in this 2015 edit, removed in this edit, signaled in this edit, and revdeled in this edit.

Forms of revdel

Noun
pluralrevdels
Verb
third-person singular presentrevdels
present participlerevdeling
present participlerevdelling
past participlerevdeled
pastrevdeled
past participlerevdelled
pastrevdelled

Origin of revdel

Shortened from revision deletion.

Questions about revdel

What does revdel mean?
Revdel means the action of deleting revisions of a page from public view, a function available to administrators.
What part of speech is revdel?
Revdel can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of revdel?
The plural of revdel is revdels.

Words near revdel in the dictionary

  1. Revati Crater
  2. revatropate
  3. RevCo
  4. Revd
  5. Revd.
  6. revdel
  7. revdeled
  8. revdeling
  9. revdelled
  10. revdelling
  11. revdels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: revdel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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