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eliding
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The answer ELIDING has 6 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of eliding in various dictionaries:
verb - leave or strike out
verb - to leave out
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Possible Crossword Clues |
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Saying 'ere or 'ead, e.g. |
Passing over |
Saying 'ere or 'ead |
Saying "somethin'," say |
Saying 'g'day,' for example |
Leaving out of one's speech |
Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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Nov 14 2018 Wall Street Journal |
Feb 16 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education |
Jul 15 2015 L.A. Times Daily |
Nov 13 2010 USA Today |
Jun 7 2008 Newsday.com |
Oct 1 2005 Universal |
Possible Dictionary Clues |
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Present participle of elide. |
omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking. |
Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking. |
Join together merge. |
Eliding might refer to |
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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 |