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self-deleting

self-deleting is the present participle and gerund 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-deleting

What is self-deleting the present participle and gerund of?
Self-deleting is the present participle and gerund of self-delete.

Words near self-deleting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-deleting (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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