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soft delete

soft delete is the alternative form of soft-delete.

Meaning of soft-delete

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To remove access to (a resource), without deleting the resource itself.
    • That service was criticized for soft-deleting users' files without their knowledge, meaning they were still internally able to access everything.

Forms of soft delete

third-person singular presentsoft deletes
present participlesoft deleting
past participlesoft deleted
pastsoft deleted

Questions about soft delete

What is soft delete the alternative form of?
Soft delete is the alternative form of soft-delete.

Words near soft delete in the dictionary

  1. soft count
  2. soft counts
  3. soft coup
  4. soft coups
  5. soft cs
  6. soft delete
  7. soft deletion
  8. soft deletions
  9. soft determinism
  10. soft determinist
  11. soft determinists

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