elide

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

elide [elide elides elided eliding] BrE [iˈlaɪd] NAmE [iˈlaɪd] verb ~ sth (phonetics)
to leave out the sound of part of a word when you are pronouncing it
•The ‘t’ in ‘often’ may be elided.
see also ↑elision
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Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘annul’, chiefly as a Scots legal term): from Latin elidere ‘crush out’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + laedere ‘to dash’.