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APHESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in 'squire' for 'esquire'
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("aphesis" is a kind of...):
deletion; omission (any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)
Derivation:
aphetic (produced by aphesis)
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