soft-delete

verb

soft-delete

verb
1

Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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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