Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render aphetic; shorten by aphesis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To shorten by aphesis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To shorten by aphesis.

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