ELIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elide mean? 

• ELIDE (verb)
  The verb ELIDE has 1 sense:

1. leave or strike out

  Familiarity information: ELIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELIDE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant

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))