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Aphaeresis

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
apheresis
plural
Aphaeresises
possessive
Aphaeresis's
pluralpossessive
Aphaeresises'