elide
verb /ɪˈlaɪd/
/ɪˈlaɪd/
(phonetics)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they elide | /ɪˈlaɪd/ /ɪˈlaɪd/ |
| he / she / it elides | /ɪˈlaɪdz/ /ɪˈlaɪdz/ |
| past simple elided | /ɪˈlaɪdɪd/ /ɪˈlaɪdɪd/ |
| past participle elided | /ɪˈlaɪdɪd/ /ɪˈlaɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form eliding | /ɪˈlaɪdɪŋ/ /ɪˈlaɪdɪŋ/ |
- elide something to leave out the sound of part of a word when you are pronouncing it
- The ‘t’ in ‘often’ may be elided.
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘annul’, chiefly as a Scots legal term): from Latin elidere ‘crush out’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + laedere ‘to dash’.