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delete (something) from (something)

To remove something, usually text, from something else. I think that my argument made more sense once I deleted that section from my paper. Dude, you've got to delete your ex-girlfriend's number from your phone, or else you'll just keep calling her. Once I started obsessively checking that one app, I knew I had to delete it off my phone.
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delete something from something

to remove something from something; to cross something out from something. Will you please delete this paragraph from the contract? The line was deleted from the sales agreement.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The ECP said that in total 3036 deceased persons from FATA, the names of 2718 male and 342 female voters will be deleted while from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in total 40,608 deceased persons, the names of 30,298 male and 10,310 female voters will be deleted from the voters lists.
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