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The answer ELIDE has 353 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of elide in various dictionaries:
verb - leave or strike out
To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation.
To strike out (something written).
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| omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking. |
| leave or strike out |
| to not pronounce a particular sound in a word: |
| Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking. |
| Join together merge. |
| To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation. |
| To strike out (something written). |
| To eliminate or leave out of consideration. |
| To cut short abridge. |
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In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. The word elision is frequently used in linguistic description of living languages, and deletion is often used in historical linguistics for a historical sound change. * While often described as occurring in "slurred" speech, elisions are a normal speech phenomenon and come naturally to native speakers of the language in which they occur. Contractions such as can not can't involve elision, and "dropping" of word-internal unstressed vowels (known specifically as syncope) is frequent: Mississippi Missippi, history histry, mathematics mathmatics. * In French, elisions are mandatory in certain contexts, as in C'est la vie (elided from *Ce est la vie). An example of historical elision in French that began at the phrasal level and became lexicalized is preposition de > d' in aujourd'hui 'today', now felt by native speakers to be one word, but d |