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What does elide mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word elide? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To leave out or omit (something).
  2. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
  3. Conflate; smear together; blur the distinction between.
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He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence.
I call it unchivalrous because it has been known to elide eulogies of enemy decency and enemy valour.
Since the publication of her first novel, she has returned in her fiction to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.
Worst of all, they elide the obvious point that all revolts fluctuate between periods of progress and regression.
Unfortunately, this tends to elide distinctions between the producers and consumers of discourse.
As described in the end notes, ellipses occasionally are used typographically to elide names.

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