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auslassen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • drop noun A small round blob of liquid.
  • elide verb To leave out or omit something.
  • expound verb To lay out the meaning of something, or to talk about it in detail.
  • forgo verb To choose to go without something, even though you could have it.
  • omit verb To leave something out or exclude it.
  • render verb To cause something to become a certain way.
  • skip verb To move along lightly with a hop in each step.
  • wreak verb To cause or inflict something damaging or violent, such as havoc, damage, or revenge.

Senses

auslassen is used for these senses in English:

  • drop (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.). [from 19th c.]
  • elide To leave out or omit (something).
  • expound (intransitive, with on or upon) To make a statement, especially at length.
  • forgo To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
  • forgo (literary) To refrain from, to abstain from.
  • let down (transitive, of clothing) To lengthen by undoing and resewing a hem.
  • let out (of clothing) To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams.
  • miss out (chiefly, British, transitive) To leave out, to omit.

drop — full definition

  1. noun A small round blob of liquid.
  2. verb To let something fall, or to fall oneself.
  3. verb To release something (a song, product, or piece of information) to the public.
  4. verb To stop doing, discuss, or associate with something; to abandon it.

elide — full definition

  1. verb To leave out or omit something.
  2. verb In linguistics, to cut off a vowel or a syllable when speaking.
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