Elide

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation.
  • transitive verb. To strike out (something written).
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To eliminate or leave out of consideration.
  • transitive verb. To cut short; abridge.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish.
  • transitive verb. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish.
  • verb. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one.
  • verb. To distract from or evade (a question or line of argument)
  • verb. To leave out or omit (something)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. leave or strike out
  • Word Usage
    "One final point, and one that the cases in the Apprendi line sometimes elide, is that it isn’t just a Sixth Amendment issue."
    Form
    elided  eliding  
    Hypernym
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    Hyponym
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    drop  
    Synonym
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    verb-form
    elided  elides  eliding