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omit

Pronunciation: /əʊˈmɪt/

The English word “omit” has 4 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To leave out or exclude.
  2. To fail to perform.
  3. To delete or remove; to strike.
  4. To neglect or take no notice of.

Etymology

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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