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elide

verb
🔊/ɪˈlaɪd/
🔊/ɪˈlaɪd/
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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/
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  1. elide something to leave out the sound of part of a word when you are pronouncing it省略（词的部分）发音
    • The ‘t’ in ‘often’ may be elided.often 中的 t 可以不发音。🔊🔊
    see also elision
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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’.