OMIT: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | ow'mit
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- [v] leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
- [v] prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
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| | Synonyms: | | drop, except, exclude, leave off, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit, take out |
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| | Antonyms: | | attend to, include, take to heart | | |
| | See Also: | | do away with, elide, eliminate, forget, get rid of, jump, pass over, skip, skip over | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Omitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Omitting}.] [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see {Ob-} + mittere
to cause to go, let go, send. See {Mission}.]
1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to
drop.
These personal comparisons I omit. --Bacon.
2. To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use
of; to leave undone; to neglect.
Her father omitted nothing in her education that
might make her the most accomplished woman of her
age. --Addison.
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| | Related Terms: | | abandon, abbreviate, abridge, ban, bar, bar out, blink at, blockade, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, count out, cross out, cut, cut off, cut out, debar, dele, delete, discount, disregard, edit, edit out, embargo, eradicate, erase, except, exclude, expunge, expurgate, fail, forget, freeze out, goldbrick, goof off, ignore, jump, keep out, kill, leave, leave loose ends, leave out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let slide, lock out, malinger, miss, neglect, obliterate, ostracize, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, preclude, pretermit, procrastinate, prohibit, reject, relegate, repudiate, rescind, rub out, send to Coventry, shirk, shut out, skip, slack, slight, strike, strike off, strike out, taboo, trifle, void |
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