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deletion

the act of deleting something written or printed

the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"

(genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

Synonyms:

• abbreviation,
• abridgment,
• blot,
• blotting,
• blotting out,
• blue-penciling,
• bowdlerization,
• cancel,
• cancellation,
• censoring,
• censorship,
• editing,
• effacement,
• erasure,
• expunction,
• expurgation,
• obliteration,
• omission,
• scrubbing,
• striking,
• washing out,
• wiping out