Omit
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English
Verb
Omit (third-person singular simple present Omits, present participle omitting, simple past and past participle omitted)
- (transitive) To leave out or exclude. (most common usage)
- (transitive) To fail to perform.
- (transitive) To neglect or take no notice of. (Obscure)
Adverbs for Omit
premeditatedly; accidentally; tragically; pointedly; voluntarily; mercifully; insidiously; hazardously; rashly; cavalierly.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
(at least by 1422) Enters Late Middle English, from Latin omittere which means literally “to let go”, from ob- + mittere (“to send”), but also had the connotations to ‘fail to perform’ and ‘to neglect’.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Translations
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Finnish
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Omit
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French
Verb
Omit
- third-person singular past historic of omettre
