cancel vs delete

cancel

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. 

  • To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture. 

  • To invalidate or annul something. 

  • To stop production of a programme. 

  • To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. 

noun
  • A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). 

  • The page thus suppressed. 

  • A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. 

  • The page that replaces it. 

  • The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. 

delete

verb
  • To kill or murder. 

  • To defeat or dominate. 

  • To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. 

noun
  • A remainder of a music or video release. 

  • The delete character (U+007F or %7F). 

  • A deletion. 

How often have the words cancel and delete occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )