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softdelete

softdelete 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 softdelete

third-person singular presentsoftdeletes
present participlesoftdeleting
past participlesoftdeleted
pastsoftdeleted

Questions about softdelete

What is softdelete the alternative form of?
Softdelete is the alternative form of soft-delete.

Words near softdelete in the dictionary

  1. softcore
  2. softcore pornography
  3. softcover
  4. softcovered
  5. softcovers
  6. softdelete
  7. softdrink
  8. softdrinks
  9. soften
  10. soften someone's cough
  11. soften the blow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: softdelete (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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