Contact and joining
Synonyms for delete
The synonym for delete recorded in this bank is cancel, in the sense "remove or make invisible". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for delete
- cancelverb, in the sense "remove or make invisible"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for delete.
remove or make invisible
Please delete my name from your list.
The true synonym
cancel
Same sentence, swapped: Please cancel my name from your list.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- hull
- scoop
- depart
Where delete turns up in the game
delete is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where delete is the trap
- transposeverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is interchange, in the sense "to switch the positions of two things", and delete is on the board beside it.
- cancelverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is invalidate, in the sense "make invalid for use", so delete is there to be ruled out.
- editverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is redact, in the sense "prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting", with delete sitting one tile away.
Play delete
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so delete reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. delete carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.