Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That can be blotted out or erased.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being blotted out or erased.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Obsolete form of delible.

Etymologies

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Latin delebilis.

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Examples

  • Employed several layers of paper of various materials and colors; the middle one was colored with a deleble dye, whose color was changed by the application of chemicals to the outer layer.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • There's 'deleble' spelled with an e, and 'indelible' with an

    Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902

  • "Aunt Eliza," said Aurora one day, "you have instilled into my sensitive nature an indelible aversion to men, compared with which all such deleble passions as affection and love are as inconsequential as summer zephyrs.

    The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872

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