"elide" meaning in English

See elide in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɪˈlaɪd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elide.wav Forms: elides [present, singular, third-person], eliding [participle, present], elided [participle, past], elided [past]
Rhymes: -aɪd Etymology: From Latin ēlīdō (“I strike out”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|ēlīdō|t=I strike out}} Latin ēlīdō (“I strike out”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} elide (third-person singular simple present elides, present participle eliding, simple past and past participle elided)
  1. To leave out or omit (something). Translations (to leave out or omit): أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa) (Arabic), حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) (Arabic), omitir (Asturian), премълчавам (premǎlčavam) (Bulgarian), ometre (Catalan), 省略 (shěnglüè) (Chinese Mandarin), vynechat (Czech), udelade (Danish), weglaten (Dutch), jättää pois (Finnish), omettre (French), omitir (Galician), გამოტოვება (gamoṭoveba) (Georgian), weglassen (German), auslassen (German), παραλείπω (paraleípo) (Greek), kihagy (Hungarian), omettere (Italian), 省略する (shōryaku suru) (alt: しょうりゃくする) (Japanese), 抜かす (nukasu) (alt: ぬかす) (Japanese), whakamutu (Maori), whāmutu (Maori), kape (Maori), tīpoka (Maori), unnta (Norwegian), hoppe over (Norwegian), utelate (Norwegian Bokmål), pominąć (Polish), pomijać (Polish), opuszczać (Polish), opuścić (Polish), omitir (Portuguese), omite (Romanian), a lăsa la o parte (Romanian), пропуска́ть (propuskátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), пропусти́ть (propustítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), не включа́ть (ne vključátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), не включи́ть (ne vključítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), omitir (Spanish), dejar de lado (Spanish), utelämna (Swedish), hariç bırakmak (Turkish), ihmal etmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-elide-en-verb-YDlR98R5 Disambiguation of 'to leave out or omit': 92 6 2
  2. (linguistics) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable): أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa) (Arabic), حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) (Arabic), elideren (Dutch), verbinden (Dutch), élider (French), elidere (Italian), елиди́рати [Cyrillic, imperfective, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), elidírati [Roman, imperfective, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), elidir (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-elide-en-verb-DC6Acc5R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Asturian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 57 32 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 61 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 12 66 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Asturian translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 59 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 12 63 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 8 76 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 19 59 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 19 57 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 12 65 22 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 61 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 16 54 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 10 56 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 15 63 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 15 63 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 10 51 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 14 61 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 16 54 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 11 57 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 13 63 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 15 63 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 13 62 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 17 60 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 14 62 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 14 62 24 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable': 2 97 1
  3. To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. Translations (to conflate): samenvoegen (Dutch), verbinden (Dutch), kokku sulatama (Estonian), yhdistää (Finnish), amalgamer (French), confondre (French), verbinden (German), vereinigen (German), verschmelzen (German), 融合する (yūgō suru) (Japanese), połączyć (Polish), unir (Portuguese), amalgamar (Portuguese), confunda (Romanian), соединя́ть (sojedinjátʹ) (Russian), объединя́ть (obʺjedinjátʹ) (Russian), сједи́нити [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), sjedíniti [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), amalgamar (Spanish), confundir (Spanish), unir (Spanish), birleştirmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-elide-en-verb-rDxM5cf- Disambiguation of 'to conflate': 3 6 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: elidible, unelided Related terms: collide, elidable, elision, ellipsis

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "elidible"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "unelided"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ēlīdō",
        "t": "I strike out"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ēlīdō (“I strike out”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin ēlīdō (“I strike out”).",
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      "form": "elides",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
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        "present"
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      "form": "elided",
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        "past"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "elided",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "collide"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "elision"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ellipsis"
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  ],
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:",
          "text": "Graham Hough's apparently objective assertion that 'Ozymandias' is 'extremely clear and direct', for example, elides the question of 'to whom?'.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To leave out or omit (something)."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "omit",
          "omit"
        ]
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔasqaṭa",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "أَسْقَطَ"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
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          "roman": "ḥaḏafa",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "حَذَفَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "omitir"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "premǎlčavam",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "премълчавам"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "ometre"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shěnglüè",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "省略"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "vynechat"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "udelade"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "weglaten"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "jättää pois"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "omettre"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "omitir"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gamoṭoveba",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "გამოტოვება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "weglassen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "auslassen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "paraleípo",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "παραλείπω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "kihagy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "omettere"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "alt": "しょうりゃくする",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shōryaku suru",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "省略する"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "alt": "ぬかす",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nukasu",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "抜かす"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "whakamutu"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "whāmutu"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "kape"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "tīpoka"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "unnta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "hoppe over"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "utelate"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "pominąć"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "pomijać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "opuszczać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "opuścić"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "omitir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "omite"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "a lăsa la o parte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "propuskátʹ",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "пропуска́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "propustítʹ",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "пропусти́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ne vključátʹ",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "не включа́ть"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
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          "roman": "ne vključítʹ",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "не включи́ть"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "omitir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "dejar de lado"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "utelämna"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "hariç bırakmak"
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          "_dis1": "92 6 2",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to leave out or omit",
          "word": "ihmal etmek"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable."
      ],
      "id": "en-elide-en-verb-DC6Acc5R",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
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        [
          "cut off",
          "cut off"
        ],
        [
          "vowel",
          "vowel"
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        [
          "syllable",
          "syllable"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 97 1",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔasqaṭa",
          "sense": "to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable",
          "word": "أَسْقَطَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 97 1",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḥaḏafa",
          "sense": "to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable",
          "word": "حَذَفَ"
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      "sense": "to leave out or omit",
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      "word": "jättää pois"
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      "word": "hariç bırakmak"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to conflate",
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "verbinden"
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      "code": "et",
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      "sense": "to conflate",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "yhdistää"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "amalgamer"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "confondre"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to conflate",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yūgō suru",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "融合する"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "połączyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "unir"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "amalgamar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "confunda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sojedinjátʹ",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "соединя́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obʺjedinjátʹ",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "объединя́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "сједи́нити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "sjedíniti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "amalgamar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "confundir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "unir"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to conflate",
      "word": "birleştirmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "elide"
}

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