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Dictionary
- the act of deleting something written or printed
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor''s deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
- any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases
Similar Words: excision,
cut,
omission
Hyponyms: expurgation,
castration,
censoring,
censorship,
expunction,
expunging,
erasure,
aphaeresis,
apheresis,
aphesis,
elision,
ellipsis,
eclipsis
Derivational Morphology:
edit,
blue-pencil,
delete,
cancel,
strike,
expunge,
excise
Anagrams:
indolent
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tamper means
a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.); play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretive... more |
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