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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To fail to include or mention; leave out: omit a word.
  2. v. To pass over; neglect.
  3. v. To desist or fail in doing; forbear.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To fail to use or to do; neglect; disregard: as, to omit a duty; to omit to lock the door.
  2. To fail, forbear, or neglect to mention or speak of; leave out; say nothing of.
  3. To leave out; forbear or fail to insert or include: as, to omit an item from a list.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To leave out or exclude.
  2. v. transitive To fail to perform.
  3. v. transitive, rare To neglect or take no notice of.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
  2. v. To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect; to pass over.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. prevent from being included or considered or accepted
  2. v. leave undone or leave out

Etymologies

  1. (at least by 1422) Enters Late Middle English, from Latin omittere which means literally “to let go”, from ob- + mittere (“to send”), but also had the connotations to ‘fail to perform’ and ‘to neglect’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere : ob-, against, away; see ob- + mittere, to send. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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