What does elide mean?
Definitions for elide
ɪˈlaɪdelide
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Princeton's WordNet
elideverb
leave or strike out
"This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
Wiktionary
elideverb
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elideverb
To break or dash in pieces; to demolish.
elideverb
To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one.
elideverb
To distract from or evade (a question or line of argument)
Graham Hough's apparently objective assertion that 'Ozymandias' is 'extremely clear and direct', for example, elides the question of 'to whom?' Bennet and Royle,
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Elideverb
To cut in pieces.
Etymology: elido, Latin.
We are to cut off that whereunto they, from whom these objections proceed, fly for defence, when the force and strength of the argument is elided. Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 4.
Webster Dictionary
Elideverb
to break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument
Elideverb
to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision
Etymology: [L. elidere to strike out or off; e + laedere to hurt by striking: cf. F. lider. See Lesion.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Elide
e-līd′, v.t. to rebut: to cut off, as a syllable.—n. Eli′sion, the suppression of a vowel or syllable. [L. elidĕre, elisum—e, out, lædĕre, to strike.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of elide in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of elide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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