elide
verb (used with object)
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
elided
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past participleof elide.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof elide.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
elideverb (used with object)to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
Example Sentences
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Such abundance makes the job of a critic difficult: For every artist and presentation that gets singled out there are several others that are elided due to space constraints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
"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 ● Dec. 20, 2024
The more public figures guilty of similar acts—Tommy Robinson, Douglas Murray, Andrew Tate—have elided such prosecution, however.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
What concerned us then was the way workers were being elided from history and their exploitation made to magically disappear.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2023
This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like ego illi, age ergo, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
