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PRETERMIT
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Irregular inflected forms: pretermitted , pretermitting
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pretermit ... he / she / it pretermits
Past simple: pretermitted
Past participle: pretermitted
-ing form: pretermitting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leave undone or leave out
Example:
The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
Synonyms:
drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pretermit"):
forget (forget to do something)
jump; pass over; skip; skip over (bypass)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Derivation:
pretermission (letting pass without notice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Disregard intentionally or let pass
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "pretermit" is one way to...):
disregard; ignore; neglect (give little or no attention to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
pretermission (letting pass without notice)
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