omit
Meaning
- (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
- (intransitive) To fail to perform.
- (transitive) To delete or remove; to strike.
- (rare, transitive) To neglect or take no notice of.
Synonyms
refrain from
skip over
be remiss
make an exception of
leave a space
abbreviate
abstain
Translations
omettere
omettre
omitir
auslassen
omitir
weglaten
παραλείπω
ometreFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əʊˈmɪt/
Etymology
In summary
At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.
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