单词 | omit |
释义 | omit (once / 233 pages) v 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. WORD FAMILYomit: omissible, omission, omissive, omiting, omits, omitted, omitting+/omission: omissions USAGE EXAMPLESAs for healing, though, he omitted the topic from his assignment. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) Any “Christmas Classics” playlist that omits the Velvet Fog is a joke. Slate(Dec 23, 2016) District Judge Richard Leon last week. What was sad, but not unexpected, is what the FTA omitted from its report. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) 1v leave undone or leave out Syn|Ant|Hypo drop, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit attend to, take to heart get down to; pay attention to; take seriously forget forget to do something jump, pass over, skip, skip overbypass 2v prevent from being included or considered or accepted Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper except, exclude, leave off, leave out, take out include consider as part of something elide leave or strike out dropomit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of terminate, end, or take out |
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