omit
Americanverb (used with object)
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omits,
present (3rd person singular)
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omitted,
past participle, past
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omitting
present participle
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to leave out; fail to include or mention.
to omit a name from a list.
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to forbear or fail to do, make, use, send, etc..
to omit a greeting.
verb
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to neglect to do or include
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to fail (to do something)
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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omitsimple
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omitssimple
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have omittedperfect
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has omittedperfect
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am omittingprogressive
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are omittingprogressive
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is omittingprogressive
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have been omittingperfect progressive
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has been omittingperfect progressive
Past
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omittedsimple
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had omittedperfect
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was omittingprogressive
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were omittingprogressive
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had been omittingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of omit
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere “to let go,” equivalent to o- prefix meaning “to, toward, over, etc.” ( see o2-) + mittere “to send“
Explanation
If you omit one member of the class when you're handing out valentines, it's going to make that person feel terrible. To omit something is to leave it out, to forget or overlook it. The verb omit comes from the Latin word omittere, "to let go or to lay aside," which is exactly what it means. When you omit an ingredient you need for your brownie recipe from the grocery list, you've accidentally left off an important item. You can also deliberately omit something, which you'd do if you didn't include your least favorite cousin when you invited your relatives to a family reunion.
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But Hoover, the former Biden administration advisor, said those calculations omit how much the country would have saved in avoided health care costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Former Gunners striker Ian Wright was also critical of the club's decision to omit Martinelli from the squad for the opening game against Coventry.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
DeWitt then marked up the conversations with feedback on prompt-phrasing, questions about what information they chose to omit versus include, and critiques about how they fact-checked the AI responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Moscow has said it will omit military hardware from the procession for the first time in almost 20 years.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
But sometimes the ability to omit an agent comes in handy because the minor characters in the story are a distraction.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Eastern on Wednesday, with Wall Street analysts forecasting the month-on-month core print, which omits energy and food, to fall to 0.2% from 0.3% in August.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
It also omits Lee and focuses primarily on James Dean’s Cal Trask, one of Cathy’s sons, leaving most of her story to secondhand whispers.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
The EV’s most distinguishing feature is its mouthless face that, needing to admit less cooling airflow, omits an upper grille opening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
If a wedding invitation omits the dress code, one golden rule remains: Don’t outshine the bride.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
On the FBI’s public website, the account of the Doll Woman case still omits any mention of her, even though the need for secrecy is long past.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Australia have omitted the star pace trio of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc from their squads for the upcoming white-ball series against England.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
The company also omitted OpenAI revenue from its forecast for the December quarter, Koenig pointed out.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Beijing’s official readout completely omitted nuclear arms control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
He accused them of having "breached their duties, performed actions contrary to the art of healing" and having "omitted all the acts they were required to perform."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
And on this map, with disarming modesty the Dutch omitted themselves, using only the old Latin name Belgium for their part of Europe.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Steve Kim admitted omitting more than $27,500 in earnings from his 2021 return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
But reducing or omitting speech from a movie’s audio tracks forces viewers to give the screen their full attention, which Netflix and other streaming services assume is a lost cause in the second-screen era.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
The company said that its comparable sales at U.S. locations, omitting fuel, increased by 2.6% in the quarter, owing to pressure in its pharmacy unit following changes to Medicare drug price regulations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
"But those tags can stop omitting their sound and that's when tags and the hedgehogs kind of get lost," said Kerrigan.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Penelope hardly thought this necessary, but Lady Constance assured her that signed, binding contracts were the custom in these parts, a charming formality which she would not dream of omitting.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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