• vt. 省略；取消；刪去；不予考慮刪節
• n. (Elide)人名；(意)埃利德

e-, 向外。-lid, 擊，砍，詞源同collide, lesion.即砍掉一塊的，引申力省略。

elide (v.)

1590s, a legal term, "to annul, do away with," from Middle French elider (16c.), from Latin elidere "strike out, force out," in grammar "suppress (a vowel)" from ex- "out" (see ex-) + -lidere, comb. form of laedere "to strike" (see collide). The Latin word in grammatical use translates Greek ekthlibein. Phonological sense "slurring over a sound or part of a word" in English is first recorded 1796. Related: Elided; eliding.

1. These habits of thinking elide the difference between what is common and what is normal.

這些思維習慣忽略了普通和正常之間的區別。

來自柯林斯例句