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”.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈmɪt/, /əˈmɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊˈmɪt/, /əˈmɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

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

1. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
2. (intransitive) To fail to perform.
   • 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 136:

     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.

3. (transitive, law, of text) To delete or remove; to strike.
   • 2017, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Act 2017, section 1:

     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).

4. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

• (leave out or exclude): leave off, miss out; see also Thesaurus:omit
• (fail to perform):
• (take no notice of): disregard, ignore, pass, turn a blind eye

• omission
• mission
• elide

• Mito, mito, mito-

omit

1. second-person singular present/past indicative of omia

• Timo, Tomi, moti, toim, toim., tomi

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omit

1. third-person singular past historic of omettre