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self-deletes

self-deletes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of self-delete.

Meaning of self-delete

Verb

self-delete (third-person singular simple present self-deletes, present participle self-deleting, simple past and past participle self-deleted)

  1. (intransitive) To commit suicide.
  2. (informal, intransitive, jargon) To self-destruct.
  3. (intransitive) Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.

Questions about self-deletes

What is self-deletes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Self-deletes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of self-delete.

Words near self-deletes in the dictionary

  1. self-deficient
  2. self-defilement
  3. self-defined
  4. self-delete
  5. self-deleted
  6. self-deletes
  7. self-deleting
  8. self-deletion
  9. self-deletions
  10. self-deliver
  11. self-delivered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-deletes (page history and authors); self-delete (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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