elide

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Times, like most major publications, has a self-censorship policy that almost always forbids it from using genuine expletives (unless the president says them!), but to elide the harmless word "nuts" actually misleads the reader into thinking Jesse Jackson said something far filthier and more obscene.

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  1. transitive verb To omit or slur over (a syllable, for example) in pronunciation.
  2. transitive verb To strike out (something written).
  3. transitive verb To eliminate or leave out of consideration.

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  1. Latin ēlīdere, to strike out : ē-, ex-, ex- + laedere, to strike.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese elidir = Italian elidere, from Latin elidere, knock, strike, or dash out, force out, press out, in grammar (transitive Greek ἐκθλίβειν: see ecthlipsis) suppress (a vowel), from e, out, + Iædere, strike, hurt by striking: see lesion. Cf. collide.
 

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/əˈlaɪd/
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