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omit

UK/əʊˈmɪt//oʊˈmɪt/

omit verb: to leave out or exclude.

Verb

omit (third-person singular simple present omits, present participle omitting, simple past and past participle omitted)

  1. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
    Synonyms:
    leave off
  2. (intransitive) To fail to perform.
    • She climbed out of the car and carefully omitted to lock it. She never left anything of value in it, and she found that it was to her advantage if people didn’t have to break anything in order to find that out.1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 136
  3. (transitive) To delete or remove; to strike.
    • In the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, omit sections 146(4) and 147(3) (homosexual acts as grounds for dismissal from the crew of merchant ships).2017, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Act 2017, section 1
  4. (rare, transitive) To neglect or take no notice of.

omit meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

omit in Tamil

விடுபட்ட, விட்டுவிடு

omit in Marathi

to leave out or exclude
वगळणे vagaḷṇe

omit in Urdu

بھول جانا, حذف کرنا, کھانا, ملحوظ خاطر نہ رکھنا, نظر انداز کرنا

omit in Bengali

বাদ দেওয়া, বর্জন করা
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omit in Malayalam
വിട്ടുകളയുക, ചെയ്യാതെവിടുക, ഉപേക്ഷ കാണിക്കുക
omit in Kannada
ಬಿಟ್ಟುಬಿಡು, ಸೇರಿಸದಿರು, ಲೋಪಮಾಡು, ತ್ಯಜಿಸು
omit in Sanskrit
हापयति hāpayati
omit in Vietnamese
lược, lược bỏ

Examples of omit in a sentence

  • His itemization of the inventory did seem accurate, however it omitted several crucial entries.
  • Mom omits this trick, instead relying on an overnight rest to make a silkier batter.
  • The shugoshin Sgo1 homodimer and inhibitor toxin microcystin peptide have been omitted for clarity.

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Synonyms of omit

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Antonyms

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Forms of omit

third-person singular presentomits
present participleomitting
past participleomitted
pastomitted

Past tense of omit: omitted

Origin of omit

At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.

Words formed from omit

Words that rhyme with omit

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Questions about omit

What does omit mean?
Omit means to leave out or exclude.
What is omit in Tamil?
Omit in Tamil is விடுபட்ட, விட்டுவிடு. See Omit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is omit?
Omit is a verb.
How do you pronounce omit?
Omit is pronounced /əʊˈmɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of omit?
The past tense of omit is omitted.

Words near omit in the dictionary

  1. omission
  2. omissions
  3. omissive
  4. omissively
  5. omissiveness
  6. omit
  7. omits
  8. omittability
  9. omittable
  10. omittance
  11. omittances

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: omit (page history and authors); omit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); omit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Omit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); omit (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); omit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); हापयति (Sanskrit) (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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