elide.
To leave out or omit (something).
Meaning & usage
To leave out or omit (something).
To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.
Where this word comes from
From Latin ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)).
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