About The Word Elision
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Elision
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What's The Definition Of Elision?
[n] a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
[n] omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) Synonyms | Synonyms for Elision: exception | exclusion Related Terms | Find terms related to Elision: abbreviation | abridgment | abstract | apocope | aposiopesis | clipping | compression | condensation | conspectus | contraction | crasis | curtailment | cutting | ellipsis | epitome | foreshortening | precis | pruning | recap | recapitulation | reduction | retrenchment | shortening | summary | summation | syncope | syneresis | synopsis | telescoping | truncation |
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