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Delete Syndrome

A psychological tendency to impulsively delete messages, posts, or creative work shortly after writing or sharing them, usually driven by overthinking, anxiety, or fear of being judged.

People experiencing Delete Syndrome often second-guess their own voice, fearing their words are “too much” or “not enough,” even when they come from the heart.
I had something to say, but... Delete Syndrome won again.
by Poraan June 8, 2025
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Deleted by Reddit

Hey guys, this regime is kidnapping people and plotting mass murder, looks like we will have to "deleted by reddit"
by Furious Jones July 1, 2025
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Devlekshmi

dang bro she a Devlekshmi
by Ilikefareesandmarc November 12, 2025
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super delete

1. To perform physical destructive violence towards the storage medium of the last remaining copy of data or a file in your possesion.
2. Mass deletion of data (less interesting).
1. I hate the movie Titan AE, so i will super detete it by burning it to a CD and attaching it to a firecracker and detonaing it.
2. I need to super delete emails from my account.
by thisprojectsucks August 17, 2008
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ReTweet-Delete

Replying to someone's twitter feed with a dumb joke, leaving it there just long enough for said person to read it, then deleting it to avoid embarrassment from followers.
I retweeted a friend's "...gonna be hard enough." with "that's what she said. #TWSS | #LOL" then five minutes later retweet-deleted it, cause I know his wife follows him.

twitter tweet RT retweet TWSS
by putch22 February 4, 2010
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secret delete

Placing a friend on "hide" in your facebook news feed. In essence not being able to read every little thing happening within their personal bubble.

Simply put...you can secret delete someone you would like to delete from your friendlist, but don't want to go through the agonizing experience of having to explain it to them.
Jim: Hey, Joe...did you read what that moron Dave posted as his Facebook status last night? Simply the dumbest thing I have ever read.

Joe: No, I've had him on secret delete for a couple weeks now. He is such a feedclogger If I didn't work with him I would have deleted him completely.
by Crimson X December 5, 2010
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soft delete

To mark a record in a database for deletion or to temporarily prevent it from being selected. In order to actually delete the record, a "hard" delete or "permanent" delete function must be performed.
soft delete: Removing less important players in a team before a match..to utilize them at a later point.
EX: He has been soft deleted from the team
by Deep Sehgal October 21, 2013
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