soft-delete

English

Alternative forms

  • soft delete, softdelete

Verb

soft-delete (third-person singular simple present soft-deletes, present participle soft-deleting, simple past and past participle soft-deleted)

  1. To remove access to (a resource), without deleting the resource itself.
    That service was criticized for soft-deleting users' files without their knowledge, meaning they were still internally able to access everything.
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