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ellipsed

ellipsed is the simple past and past participle of ellipse.

Meaning of ellipse

Verb

ellipse (third-person singular simple present ellipses, present participle ellipsing, simple past and past participle ellipsed)

  1. To remove from a phrase a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
    • In B's response to A's question:- (A: Would you like to go out?, B: I'd love to), the words that are ellipsed are go out.

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Questions about ellipsed

What is ellipsed the simple past and past participle of?
Ellipsed is the simple past and past participle of ellipse.

Words near ellipsed in the dictionary

  1. Elliott waves
  2. Elliott-Halberstam conjecture
  3. Elliotte
  4. Elliotts
  5. ellipse
  6. ellipsed
  7. ellipses
  8. ellipsing
  9. ellipsis
  10. ellipsism
  11. ellipsization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ellipsed (page history and authors); ellipse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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