elide
pronunciation
How to pronounce elide in British English:
UK [iˈlaɪd]
How to pronounce elide in American English:
US [ɪˈlaɪd]
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- Verb:
- leave or strike out
Word Origin
- elide (v.)
- 1590s, a legal term, "to annul, do away with," from Middle French elider (16c.), from Latin elidere "strike out, force out," in grammar "suppress (a vowel)" from ex- "out" (see ex-) + -lidere, comb. form of laedere "to strike" (see collide). The Latin word in grammatical use translates Greek ekthlibein. Phonological sense "slurring over a sound or part of a word" in English is first recorded 1796. Related: Elided; eliding.
Example
- 1. When worlds elide : classics , politics , culture .
- 2. Classical music , though , gives the composer the tools to extend or elide time in the service of beauty and irony .
- 3. Nationalism can elide into that other powerful emotion , hatred , and despots like the kims make sure to push it that way .
- 4. To reflect idiomatic use , code examples in this document elide semicolons using these rules .
- 5. But as our life spans have lengthened - across the developed world , we are now living 30 years longer than we were at the beginning of the 20th century - the ages of man have started to elide .