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Destroy the specified `instance` based on its static type and return its memory footprint to the appropriate memory manager. The behavior is undefined unless `instance` was obtained from a call to `createObject` on this object factory and has not yet been deleted.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_factory.h>`

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virtual
void
deleteObject(TYPE* instance) = 0;
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