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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
elision
    n 1: omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and
         the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
    2: a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the
       children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exception,
       exclusion, elision]
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, clipping, compression, condensation, conspectus, contraction, crasis, curtailment, cutting, ellipsis, epitome, foreshortening, precis, pruning, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, summary, summation, syncope, syneresis, synopsis, telescoping, truncation
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