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ELIDE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they elide ... he / she / it elides
Past simple: elided
Past participle: elided
-ing form: eliding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leave or strike out
Example:
This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "elide" is one way to...):
except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out (prevent from being included or considered or accepted)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "elide"):
drop (omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
elision (a deliberate act of omission)
elision (omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next))
