elide

verb
/ɪˈlaɪd/

Etymology

From Latin ēlīdō (“to strike out”).

  1. borrowed from ēlīdō — “to strike out

Definitions

  1. To leave out or omit (something).

    • Graham Hough's apparently objective assertion that 'Ozymandias' is 'extremely clear and direct', for example, elides the question of 'to whom?'.
  2. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.

  3. To conflate

    To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for elide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA