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e·lide

 (ĭ-līd′)
tr.v. e·lid·ed, e·lid·ing, e·lides
1.
a. To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation.
b. To strike out (something written).
2.
a. To eliminate or leave out of consideration.
b. To cut short; abridge.

[Latin ēlīdere, to strike out : ē-, ex-, ex- + laedere, to strike.]
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elide

(ɪˈlaɪd)
vb
(Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics to undergo or cause to undergo elision
[C16: from Latin ēlīdere to knock, from laedere to hit, wound]
eˈlidible adj
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e•lide

(ɪˈlaɪd)

v.t. e•lid•ed, e•lid•ing.
1. to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
2. to abridge.
3. to delete (a written word or passage).
4. to ignore; pass over.
[1585–95; < Latin ēlīdere to crush, knock out, elide =ē- e- + -līdere, comb. form of laedere to injure]
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elide


Past participle: elided
Gerund: eliding

Imperative
elide
elide
Present
I elide
you elide
he/she/it elides
we elide
you elide
they elide
Preterite
I elided
you elided
he/she/it elided
we elided
you elided
they elided
Present Continuous
I am eliding
you are eliding
he/she/it is eliding
we are eliding
you are eliding
they are eliding
Present Perfect
I have elided
you have elided
he/she/it has elided
we have elided
you have elided
they have elided
Past Continuous
I was eliding
you were eliding
he/she/it was eliding
we were eliding
you were eliding
they were eliding
Past Perfect
I had elided
you had elided
he/she/it had elided
we had elided
you had elided
they had elided
Future
I will elide
you will elide
he/she/it will elide
we will elide
you will elide
they will elide
Future Perfect
I will have elided
you will have elided
he/she/it will have elided
we will have elided
you will have elided
they will have elided
Future Continuous
I will be eliding
you will be eliding
he/she/it will be eliding
we will be eliding
you will be eliding
they will be eliding
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been eliding
you have been eliding
he/she/it has been eliding
we have been eliding
you have been eliding
they have been eliding
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been eliding
you will have been eliding
he/she/it will have been eliding
we will have been eliding
you will have been eliding
they will have been eliding
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been eliding
you had been eliding
he/she/it had been eliding
we had been eliding
you had been eliding
they had been eliding
Conditional
I would elide
you would elide
he/she/it would elide
we would elide
you would elide
they would elide
Past Conditional
I would have elided
you would have elided
he/she/it would have elided
we would have elided
you would have elided
they would have elided
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.elide - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
drop - omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing; " New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's"
exclude, leave out, omit, leave off, except, take out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
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Translations

elide

[ɪˈlaɪd]
A. VT [+ vowel, syllable] → elidir
B. VI [vowel, syllable] → elidirse
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elide

[ɪˈlaɪd] vt
(LINGUISTICS) (= contract) [+ word] → élider
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elide

[ɪˈlaɪd] vt (Ling) → elidere
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References in classic literature ?
This was only five too much, and five was represented by e, the very letter elided from the article le before the word Empereur.
I think it far more likely, especially in view of the fact that the persons concerned were highly educated, that we are concerned with telescoped processes, in which habit has caused a great many intermediate terms to be elided or to be passed over so quickly as to escape observation.
Now the burying and the remembering are elided, partly, I suppose, to save time and money, but more by way of euphemism.
Industries have been automated for ease, non-Christian religions have been abolished, people are digitally tracked, and many books have been banned: "innocence gave way to cynicism, and the fascia of civilization was picked at, slowly elided."
The ghostly prisoners themselves tell highly elided, dubiously accurate, and aggressively poetic versions of their life stories.
But most recent shows of Sharif's work (including his current showcase in Christine Macel's Venice Biennale) have largely elided his early dematerialized practice--which included performances, urban archaeology projects, and works on paper described as "semi-systems"--and instead emphasized his vast, accumulative bundles of stuff, which he began to produce in the 1980s.
This inner logic of Yoder's thought is elided, Parler argues, by those who accuse him of reducing theology to ethics and by those who think his Christocentric theology undermines a robust theology of creation.
The narratives have been elided from mainstream history, he says, but are relevant today not just for India but also for the West because they mirror the larger story of imperialism and its victims.
Some scenes are curiously elided, for instance, skipping from blood tests to taxi home without mentioning the diagnosis he has just received.
The book's readability, however, is not helped by a lack of clarity of exposition, stylistic quirks (the colloquial style for dates--"the 16th of December"--drove this reviewer to distraction), and syntactical slips: to cite one instance, Prior notes how Aston availed himself of the idiom of "anti-popery" and then states "This he elided with presbyterianism" (pp.
I elided this for fear of over-egging the pudding, but what the policy would do in practice is invert the current position where the developer has to make the case for a wind turbine.