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aphaeresis

aphaeresis \a*phaer"e*sis\, ||Aphaeresis \A*ph[ae]r"e*sis\(?; 277), n. [L.] Same as Apheresis.

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aphaeresis

n. (context UK Canadian English) (alternative spelling of apheresis English)

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aphaeresis

n. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' [syn: apheresis]