Meaning

3 senses

  1. To leave out or omit (something).

    weglassen, auslassen

    пропуска́тьpropuskátʹ, пропусти́тьpropustítʹ, не включа́тьne vključátʹ

    leave or strike out

  2. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.

  3. To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.

    verbinden, vereinigen, verschmelzen

    соединя́тьsojedinjátʹ, объединя́тьobʺjedinjátʹ

Examples

1 sentences

  1. This glorifying language elides the horrors of war.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to leave out or omit:
to conflate:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to leave out or omit:
to conflate:

Origin

From Latin ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to str

From Latin ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)).

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Forms

elides, eliding, elided, elided
Base formelide · to elide
3rd person singularelides
Present participleeliding
Past simpleelided
Past participleelided

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyelide
he, she, itelides

Past simpleLesson

all personselided

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave elided
he, she, ithas elided

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill elide

Word family

10 related words
RelatedcollideC2allideallisioncollisionelisionlesionellipsis
Derivedelidableelidibleunelided

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
elfeliciteligibilityeligibleB2eliminateB1

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