Elide

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation.
  • v. To strike out (something written).
  • v. To eliminate or leave out of consideration.
  • v. To cut short; abridge.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish.
  • v. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one.
  • v. To distract from or evade (a question or line of argument)
  • v. To leave out or omit (something)
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish.
  • v. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To break or dash in pieces; crush.
  • In grammar, to suppress or slur over the sound of in speech, or note the suppression of in writing: technically applied especially to the cutting off of a final vowel, as in “th' enemy,” but in a more general sense to that of a syllable or any part of a word. See elision, 1.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. leave or strike out
    • Verb Form
    elided    elides    eliding   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    except    leave off    take out    omit    leave out    exclude   
    Hyponym
    drop   
    Form
    elided    eliding   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    demolish    delete   
     
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