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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Omit \O*mit"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Omitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Omitting}.] [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see {Ob-} + mittere to cause to go, let go, send. See {Mission}.]
1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
These personal comparisons I omit. --Bacon.
2. To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect; to pass over.
Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
omit
verb
1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: {exclude}, {except}, {leave out}, {leave off}, {take out}] [ant: {include}]
2: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: {neglect}, {pretermit}, {drop}, {miss}, {leave out}, {overlook}, {overleap}] [ant: {attend to}] [also: {omitting}, {omitted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "omit": abandon, abbreviate, abridge, ban, bar, bar out, blink at, blockade, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, count out, cross out, cut, cut off, cut out, debar, dele, delete, discount, disregard, edit, edit out, embargo, eradicate, erase, except, exclude, expunge, expurgate, fail, forget, freeze out, goldbrick, goof off, ignore, jump, keep out, kill, leave, leave loose ends, leave out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let slide, lock out, malinger, miss, neglect, obliterate, ostracize, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, preclude, pretermit, procrastinate, prohibit, reject, relegate, repudiate, rescind, rub out, send to Coventry, shirk, shut out, skip, slack, slight, strike, strike off, strike out, taboo, trifle, void
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