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Omit (Verb)

Meaning 1

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece".

Classification

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.

Examples

  • She had to omit her personal opinion to maintain objectivity in the article.
  • The company will omit spoilers in the movie trailer to avoid giving away the plot.
  • The chef decided to omit the expensive ingredient to make the dish more affordable.
  • Please omit the comma in the sentence to make it grammatically correct.
  • The artist chose to omit colors from the painting to emphasize emotional expression.

Synonyms

  • Leave Out
  • Take Out
  • Exclude
  • Leave Off
  • Except

Hypernyms

  • Eliminate
  • Get Rid Of
  • Extinguish
  • Do Away With

Hyponyms

  • Elide

Related Words

  • Omission (noun)
  • Omissible (adjective)

Meaning 2

Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten".

Classification

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.

Examples

  • The editor decided to omit several chapters from the final draft of the book to reduce its length.
  • She made a mistake by trying to speed up the recipe and omit a crucial ingredient.
  • If you omit a few words from the sentence, it will make more sense.
  • The teacher asked the student to omit the decimal places in the math problem for simplicity.
  • He omitted the details of his meeting with the potential client to avoid gossip.

Synonyms

  • Drop
  • Leave Out
  • Pretermit
  • Overleap
  • Miss
  • Overlook
  • Neglect

Hyponyms

  • Forget
  • Jump
  • Skip Over
  • Pass Over

Related Words

  • Omission (noun)
  • Omissive (adjective)
  • Omissible (adjective)
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