Definition of elides Elides
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What does elides mean?
Part of speech
🔤- elides, verb, present, 3rd person singular of elide (infinitive).
WordNet
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| elide - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant" | ||
| except, leave out, omit, leave off, exclude, take out stop using; "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here" | ||
| drop give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- elide (v. t.)
To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. - elide (v. t.)
To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
Part of speech
🔤- elide, verb, present, 1st person singular of elide (infinitive).
- elide, verb (infinitive).
