elide

American  

[ih-lahyd] / ɪˈlaɪd /

verb (used with object)

elided, eliding

1. to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.

2. to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over.

3. Law. to annul or quash.

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elide British  

/ ɪˈlaɪd /

verb

1. phonetics to undergo or cause to undergo elision

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Other Word Forms

• elidible adjective
• unelided adjective

Etymology

Origin of elide

First recorded in 1530–50; from Latin ēlīdere “to strike out,” equivalent to ē- “out, out of; away” + -līdere, combining form of laedere “to wound”; e- ¹

Example Sentences

His letter elides the distinction between Covid vaccines for healthy children and medicines like Sarepta’s that treat debilitating and fatal diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal

But she elides the evidence that college-educated fathers spend far more time with their children than men did a generation ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

"When a wrongful conviction occurs, it is, in the end, because they said so. All too often, the responsibility of judges for producing and maintaining wrongful convictions gets neglected, elided, and ignored."

From BBC

But this kind of ludicrous fantasy allows Hegseth to elide the deep paradox of his argument.

From Salon

She also came to realize everything monuments could distort and elide.

From Los Angeles Times