elide

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To leave out or omit (something).
2. verb To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
3. verb To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.
4. verb ↑ Wells, John (8 July 2010), “elision (not!)”, in John Wells’s phonetic blog‎, retrieved 16 June 2017
5. verb ↑ Keleny, Guy (16 November 2012), “Errors and Omissions: When words acquire new meanings, it's best not to stand in the way”, in The Independent‎, retrieved 16 June 2017

Similar words

strike out omit slur curtail leave out leave off exclude cut out miss out ellipt

Often followed by

the or into this and a with it differences

Word family

elided elides eliding