omit

o·mit

 (ō-mĭt′)

tr.v. o·mit·ted, o·mit·ting, o·mits

1. To fail to include or mention; leave out: omitted an important detail from the report.

2.

a. To fail or neglect to do (something): omitted his daily walk during our visit.

b. To fail or neglect (to do something): I omitted to mention that I don't eat meat.


[Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere : ob-, against, away; see ob- + mittere, to send.]

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omit

(əʊˈmɪt)

vb (tr) , omits, omitting or omitted

1. to neglect to do or include

2. to fail (to do something)

[C15: from Latin omittere, from ob- away + mittere to send]

omissible adj

oˈmitter n

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o•mit

(oʊˈmɪt)

v.t. o•mit•ted, o•mit•ting.

1. to leave out; fail to include.

2. to forbear or fail (to do, make, use, send, etc.).

[1400–50; < Latin omittere to let go =o- o-2 + mittere to send]

o•mit′ter, n.

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omit


Past participle: omitted
Gerund: omitting
Imperative
omit
omit
Present
I omit
you omit
he/she/it omits
we omit
you omit
they omit
Preterite
I omitted
you omitted
he/she/it omitted
we omitted
you omitted
they omitted
Present Continuous
I am omitting
you are omitting
he/she/it is omitting
we are omitting
you are omitting
they are omitting
Present Perfect
I have omitted
you have omitted
he/she/it has omitted
we have omitted
you have omitted
they have omitted
Past Continuous
I was omitting
you were omitting
he/she/it was omitting
we were omitting
you were omitting
they were omitting
Past Perfect
I had omitted
you had omitted
he/she/it had omitted
we had omitted
you had omitted
they had omitted
Future
I will omit
you will omit
he/she/it will omit
we will omit
you will omit
they will omit
Future Perfect
I will have omitted
you will have omitted
he/she/it will have omitted
we will have omitted
you will have omitted
they will have omitted
Future Continuous
I will be omitting
you will be omitting
he/she/it will be omitting
we will be omitting
you will be omitting
they will be omitting
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been omitting
you have been omitting
he/she/it has been omitting
we have been omitting
you have been omitting
they have been omitting
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been omitting
you will have been omitting
he/she/it will have been omitting
we will have been omitting
you will have been omitting
they will have been omitting
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been omitting
you had been omitting
he/she/it had been omitting
we had been omitting
you had been omitting
they had been omitting
Conditional
I would omit
you would omit
he/she/it would omit
we would omit
you would omit
they would omit
Past Conditional
I would have omitted
you would have omitted
he/she/it would have omitted
we would have omitted
you would have omitted
they would have omitted

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb1.omit - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"

do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

elide - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

2.omit - leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

forget - forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"

pass over, skip, skip over, jump - bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

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omit

verb

1. leave out, miss (out), drop, exclude, eliminate, skip, give (something) a miss (informal) Our apologies for omitting your name from the article.
leave out include, add, enter, put in, incorporate, insert

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omit

verb

2. To not do (something necessary):

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Translations

يَحْذِفيُغْفِل، لا يَفْعَل

udeladeundlade

láta ógert, sleppasleppa

praleidimaspražiūrėti

izlaistizlaist, atstāt nedarītu

izpustiti

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omit

(əˈmit) past tense, past participle oˈmitted verb

1. to leave out. You can omit the last chapter of the book.

2. not to do. I omitted to tell him about the meeting.

oˈmission (-ʃən) noun

1. something that has been left out. I have made several omissions in the list of names.

2. the act of omitting. the omission of his name from the list.


omitted and omitting have two ts.

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omit

v. omitir, suprimir, excluir.

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