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

• yes-buts
• yeses
• yeshiva
• yeshivah
• yeshivahs
• yeshivas
• yeshivot
• yeshivoth
• yesk
• yesked
• yesking
• yesks
• yes-man
• yes-men
• yes's
• yesses
• yest
• zip guns
• Ziphiidae
• Ziphius
• zip-in
• zipline
• ziplines
• ziplock
• ziplocked