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ellipting

ellipting is the present participle and gerund of ellipt.

Meaning of ellipt

Verb

ellipt (third-person singular simple present ellipts, present participle ellipting, simple past and past participle ellipted)

  1. To omit (from an utterance) by ellipsis.
    • […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]2013, Noel Burton-Roberts, Analysing Sentences, page 210
    Synonyms:
    elide

Questions about ellipting

What is ellipting the present participle and gerund of?
Ellipting is the present participle and gerund of ellipt.

Words near ellipting in the dictionary

  1. elliptick
  2. ellipticone
  3. ellipticones
  4. ellipticonic
  5. elliptics
  6. ellipting
  7. elliptization
  8. elliptizations
  9. elliptize
  10. elliptized
  11. elliptizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ellipting (page history and authors); ellipt (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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