Deleting

verb

verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of delete form-of, gerund, participle, present

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erasure

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"It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting."

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