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Thursday, February 18, 2010
ELIDE
elide
:
leave out; suppress; omit; ignore; to strike out, e.g. some word written; slur over, e.g. a vowel, syllable, etc. (
Example
: "Did you know that dragons elide riders' names?" [
Reference:
The Chronicles of Pern
written by
Anne McCaffrey
])
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