ELIDE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they elide ... he / she / it elides

Past simple: elided

Past participle: elided

-ing form: eliding

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))