elide
verb uk/iˈlaɪd/ us/iˈlaɪd/
[ T ] phonetics specialized省略（词的部分）发音
to not pronounce a particular sound in a word
The "t" of "acts" is often elided if someone is speaking quickly. 说话快的时候，人们常常省略“acts”中的“t”音。
She drops g's, elides r's and, in general, sounds streetwise and tough.
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- Notice how easily you elide "ethnicity" and "culture"?
- Some of his worst tendencies have been elided in media coverage.
- The keynote song changes tempo, elides into another melody, then resurfaces again and again.
- It is telling that he elides the difference between video and film images.
- She sounds out the word "dangerous" that was elided into two syllables in the original version of the song.
- In this dialect the u is modified and the final vowel elided.
- Sometimes words may be elided into forms such as "kinda", "gonna", "tellem".