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omit

UK/əʊˈmɪt/ US/əˈmɪt/ rare rare

verb

1.

prevent from being included or considered or accepted

  • “The bad results were excluded from the report”
  • “Leave off the top piece”
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2.

leave undone or leave out

  • “How could I miss that typo?”
  • “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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Origin

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”.

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