elide

[ih-lahyd]

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verb (used with object), e·lid·ed, e·lid·ing.

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

to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over.

Law. to annul or quash.

RELATED WORDS

cancel, suppress, neglect, delete

Nearby words

Origin of elide

1585–95; < Latin ēlīdere to strike out, equivalent to ē- e-¹ + -līdere, combining form of laedere to wound

Related formsun·e·lid·ed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for elided

The "elles" here would not scan but for the elided "e" in "souv'raine" at the end of the line.
Avril|H. Belloc
The final e in sinne must not be elided; it is preserved by the caesura.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales|Geoffrey Chaucer
Hadde, possessed; as hadde is here emphatic, the final e is not elided.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales|Geoffrey Chaucer
But even in the matter of elided consonants American is not always the conservator.
The American Language|Henry L. Mencken

The -e in fairest-e is not elided; neither is the -e in wist-e in l. 745.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7)|Geoffrey Chaucer

British Dictionary definitions for elided

elide

verb

phonetics to undergo or cause to undergo elision

Derived Formselidible, adjective

Word Origin for elide

C16: from Latin ēlīdere to knock, from laedere to hit, wound

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Word Origin and History for elided

elide

1590s, a legal term, "to annul, do away with," from Middle French elider (16c.), from Latin elidere "strike out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + -lidere, comb. form of laedere "to strike." Phonological sense is first recorded 1796. Related: Elided; eliding.