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Omitted from a speech?
Answer for the clue "Omitted from a speech? ", 6 letters:
elided
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Word definitions for elided in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elide \E*lide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elided ; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliding .] [L. elidere to strike out or off; e + laedere to hurt by striking: cf. F. ['e]lider. See Lesion .] To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: elide )
Usage examples of elided.
Perry focused in on Ula, who gave the elided camera the startled-doe gaze of one caught in a crime she had momentarily forgotten was illegal, the blankness persisting for only a beat before she flashed the loosest grin of the night, blew the lens a soulful kiss, and scampered nimbly for the house.
I think it far more likely, especially in view of the fact that the persons concerned were highly educated, that we are concerned with telescoped processes, in which habit has caused a great many intermediate terms to be elided or to be passed over so quickly as to escape observation.
There are certain consonants in it which require to be elided or swallowed or swivelled round the glottis, in order to give the name its proper due.