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self-delete

The English word “self-delete” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To commit suicide.
  2. To self-destruct.
  3. Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.

Etymology

From self- + delete.

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