elide

Verb

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Verb (1)elided, eliding

  1. leave or strike out“This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant”More general exclude, exceptMore specific drop

Related words elision noun, exception noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

E·lide′ transitive verb [past tense & past participle Elided; present participle & verbal noun Eliding.]

Origin: L. elidere to strike out or off; e + laedere to hurt by striking: cf. F. élider. See Lesion.

1. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. obsolete Richard Hooker

2. Grammar To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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