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Crossword-Solution: ELIDE 5 letters, 244 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Elide v. t. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the
force of an argument.
Elide v. t. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final
one; to subject to elision.

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Word Anagrams
ELIDE anagram DELIE, DIELE, EDILE, ILEDE, LIDEE

We have 244 clues for the answer “ELIDE”

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A drawler might do it 1 answer
Apocopate 1 answer
Ask for "fish 'n' chips," say 1 answer
Audibly omit 1 answer
Avoid some syllables 1 answer
Bypass a vowel 1 answer
Bypass vowels 1 answer
Change "captain" to "cap'n," e.g. 1 answer
Change "captain" to cap'n" 1 answer
Choose not to say? 1 answer
Curtail, in a way 1 answer
Cut off a syllable 1 answer
Cut off, as a final vowel. 1 answer
Cut, as syllables 1 answer
Don't pronounce 1 answer
Drop a letter or two 1 answer
Drop a sound 1 answer
Drop a vowel 1 answer
Drop a vowel in pronunciation 1 answer
Drop in pronunciation 1 answer
Drop in speech 1 answer
Drop out of a conversation? 1 answer
Drop out of the conversation? 1 answer
Drop syllables 1 answer
Drop vowels 1 answer
Drop vowels while speaking 1 answer
Drop, as a vowel sound 1 answer
Drop, as syllables 1 answer
Eliminate a syllable, perhaps 1 answer
Fail to pronounce 1 answer
Fail to pronounce, as a syllable 1 answer
Fail to pronounce, as the "g" in an "-ing" word 1 answer
Forget a letter 1 answer
Gloss over, vocally 1 answer
Go "y'all," not "you all" 1 answer
Have "nothin'" to say, e.g. 1 answer
Ignore in pronunciation 1 answer
Join together; merge 1 answer
Leave out a syllable. 1 answer
Leave out a vowel 1 answer
Leave out a vowel when speaking 1 answer
Leave out a vowel, e.g. 1 answer
Leave out in elocution 1 answer
Leave out in pronunciation 1 answer
Leave out phonetically 1 answer
Leave out vocally 1 answer
Leave out, as a syllable 1 answer
Leave out, as a vowel 1 answer
Leave out, as the "g" when saying "sayin'" 1 answer
Leave out, in speech 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble ELIDE5-letter words that start with E5-letter words that end in E5-letter words containing LI5-letter words containing DE5-letter words with E and L

Sentences with ELIDE (5)

Now, the defences proponed say, that _non constat_ at this present what is a plough-gate of land, whilk uncertainty is sufficient to elide the conclusions of the libel.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Vol. 1., Illustrated Sir Walter Scott 2004
Indeed, now and then when she tried to run ahead in a way to elide this incident or that, he asked questions that brought out all the details, and at the end he said with undisguised gravity, but quite steadily: "So after the play opened you were just waiting for Galbraith to send for you.
The Real Adventure Henry Kitchell Webster 2005
The delightful encounter between the jester and the bear in the crowning interlude of _La Princesse d'Elide_ shows once more, I may remark, that Moliere had sat at the feet of Rabelais as delightedly as Shakespeare before him.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 2005
Inside her woodland Majesty doth keep A world of wonders--if one dared to peep-- Of things that burrow, elide, spin webs, or creep; Strange creatures, which before they live must die, And plants that hunt for prey, and flowers that fly!" [Illustration: 140.] $Pausias$ "My love of nature freezes in a trice; I loathe all earwigs, beetles, and wood-lice.
Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse Richard Doddridge Blackmore 2007
Throw off your things." Then she hopelessly involved them in a presentation to me, and between us we contrived to elide Mrs.
Friendship Village Zona Gale 2008

Quotes with ELIDE (3)

Kaltain just squeezed Elide’s fingers. “You find Celaena Sardothien. Give her this. No one else. No one else. Tell her that you can open any door, if you have the key. And tell her to remember her promise to me — to punish them all. When she asks why, tell her I said that they would not let me bring the cloak she gave me, but I kept a piece of it. To remember that promise she made. To remember to repay her for a warm cloak in a cold dungeon.
Sarah J. Maas Queen of Shadows
t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
Adam Nicolson God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible
The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the ideal of presuppositionless understanding; a truer theory of interpretation, which does not seek to elide the historical reality of the one seeking understanding, sets the interpreter himself within tradition. What we understand when we seek to understand the writings of the past is borne to us by tradition. Understanding is an …
Andrew Louth Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology
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Used 556 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).