Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation.
- v. To strike out (something written).
- v. To eliminate or leave out of consideration.
- v. To cut short; abridge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To break or dash in pieces; crush.
- In grammar, to suppress or slur over the sound of in speech, or note the suppression of in writing: technically applied especially to the cutting off of a final vowel, as in “th' enemy,” but in a more general sense to that of a syllable or any part of a word. See elision, 1.
Wiktionary
- v. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish.
- v. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one.
- v. To distract from or evade (a question or line of argument)
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish.
- v. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
WordNet 3.0
- v. leave or strike out
Etymologies
- Latin ēlīdere, to strike out : ē-, ex-, ex- + laedere, to strike.
Examples
“One final point, and one that the cases in the Apprendi line sometimes elide, is that it isn’t just a Sixth Amendment issue.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Extending Probation Sentence Without Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
“Mike, I want to cheer for you simply because you can use the word "elide" in regular speech.”
“But few people will read the report itself, and it's too easy to elide its specific recommendations into an argument against treating foster children, or just kids in general, with psychotropic drugs.”
The Huffington Post: Kaitlin Bell Barnett: Medicating Foster Kids: Not the Travesty It Seems?
“But then the authors tend to elide uncomfortable details.”
“But by framing this issue in terms of healthcare premiums, Tyler does seem to elide the fundamental resource allocation problem.”
Tyler Cowen on Economic Turbulence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“On the contrary, they were an admission that the promise with which he had begun his administration, that he could elide the polarities of American politics, had vanished in the clashes and concessions of governing.”
“Hills argues that efforts to address this question are ultimately futile and tend to elide the really important issues:”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
“Well, yes, except that you elide (or exclude) the other clause in the sentence which was “in exchange for more than their fair share of the surplus”.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
“Both tend to elide the distinction between what is regarded as the superior and inferior types.”
“Which goes some distance in explaining why the writers found it easier to elide the difference between irrational and polynomial ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘elide’.
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Logolepsy
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cicatrix
scar tissue
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Vocab
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New words to learn.
Words I needed to look up.
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L’esprit de l’escalier
staircase wit or...
a feeling or thought I should have said but never did
because of fear.ennui, aboulia, boob, nincompoop, mooncalf, treppenwitz, hadiwist, et patati et patata, lire quelque chos..., tiddledies, elide, fastidious and 1 more...
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Flip your lid
gelid, eyelid, annelid, chilidog, holiday, stolid, cichlid, consolidate, pallid, sipunculid, valid, squalid and 71 more...
yarb What a superb thesis. The author is right; Orwell and Waugh were very much alike. Really if you read them both, you read England in the first half of the C20. Aug 31, 2008
john "Dissimilar though their causes may have been, Orwell and Waugh were both anchored by “a hatred of moral relativism”; that, Lebedoff claims, is what set the two men apart from their contemporaries. Yet in stressing this similarity, the author elides a deeper difference."
The New York Times, Two of a Kind, by Jim Holt, August 29, 2008 Aug 31, 2008
adm one of the best words in english. Dec 5, 2006