elide

verb \ i-ˈlīd \

|Updated on: 16 Jul 2018

Examples: elide in a Sentence

Definition of elide

elided; eliding

transitive verb

1 a : to suppress or alter (something, such as a vowel or syllable) by elision

b : to strike out (something, such as a written word)

2 a : to leave out of consideration : omit

b : curtail, abridge

Examples of elide in a Sentence

some unnecessary verbiage will need to be elided, but otherwise the article is publishable
the product presentation was not elided—it's always only 15 minutes long

Recent Examples of elide from the Web

Meanwhile, Sharp Objects focuses on cutting, a specifically female form of self-harm (one 2017 study showed that girls are three times as likely to self-harm as boys), and one that Noxon point out has often been elided from our screens.

— anna silman, The Cut, "Sharp Objects," 11 July 2018
In the 13-plus hours that make up the finished film, certain facts that might complicate or distract from that narrative are elided or left out entirely.

— refinery29.com, "Everything The Staircase Left Out," 18 June 2018
The most important point that Sanders elides is that unlike these other media figures, Ivanka Trump is a senior White House official who has actual power over the policymaking process.

— jay willis, GQ, "Calling an Administration Official a "Feckless Cunt" Is Not the Same as Racism," 1 June 2018
Thanks to Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations enshrined the idea of minority protections, but the League of Nations failed, and the United Nations responded to this failure by eliding distinctions between peoples rather than addressing them.

— martin peretz, WSJ, "‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples," 8 May 2018
The most comprehensive study of such advertising, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2014, notes that cancer-treatment ads as a class rely on emotional appeals evoking hope or fear, while pointedly eliding useful information.

— steve salerno, WSJ, "In the War on Cancer, Truth Becomes a Casualty," 20 Apr. 2018
This argument elides the possibility that in this context, social media enables the free marketplace of ideas to operate more efficiently than ever.

— jay willis, GQ, "Fired Atlantic Writer Kevin Williamson Is Mad His Bad Pitch Was Rejected," 24 Apr. 2018
Those assertions elide the death penalty’s realities.

— matt ford, The New Republic, "The death penalty continues to slowly die.," 27 Apr. 2018
The Conservatives’ short-term focus on deficit targets elided a bigger argument about how to reform the long-term drivers of government spending.

— joseph c. sternberg, WSJ, "When Governments Refuse to Choose," 12 Apr. 2018

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