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e⋅lide
[i-lahyd] 
–verb (used with object), e⋅lid⋅ed, e⋅lid⋅ing.
| 1. | to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation. |
| 2. | to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over. |
| 3. | Law. to annul or quash. |
Origin:
1585–95; < L ēlīdere to strike out, equiv. to ē- e- + -līdere, comb. form of laedere to wound
1585–95; < L ēlīdere to strike out, equiv. to ē- e- + -līdere, comb. form of laedere to wound
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| e·lide (ĭ-līd') tr.v. e·lid·ed, e·lid·ing, e·lides
[Latin ēlīdere, to strike out : ē-, ex-, ex- + laedere, to strike.] |
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Elide
E*lide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elided; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliding.] [L. elidere to strike out or off; e + laedere to hurt by striking: cf. F. ['e]lider. See Lesion.]1. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. [Obs.] --Hooker. 2. (Gram.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
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elide
1593, a legal term, "to annul, do away with," from M.Fr. elider, from L. elidere "strike out," from ex- "out" + -lidere, comb. form of laedere "to strike." Phonological sense is first recorded 1796.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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