elide /ē- or i-līdˈ/

1. To cut off (esp a syllable in verse)
2. To suppress or abridge
3. To rebut (archaic)

elision /i-lizhˈən/ noun

1. The suppression of a vowel or syllable
2. An omission

• brushwood
• brushwoods
• stewartry
• stew-can
• stew-cans
• stewed
• stewer
• stewers
• stewier
• stewiest
• stewing
• stewings
• stew in one's own juice
• stewpan
• stewpans
• stewpond
• stewponds
• stewpot
• stews
• stewy
• stey
• steyer
• steyest
• STFC
• stg