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Pretermit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To disregard intentionally or allow to pass unnoticed or unmentioned.

v. To fail to do or include; omit.

v. To interrupt or terminate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's comment; to omit or fail to carry out something; to prematurely terminate or interrupt something.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To let pass: permit to go by unused or not turned to account.

To omit; leave unnoticed or unmentioned; disregard; overlook.

To leave undone; neglect to do, make, or perform.

To render ineffectual.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. disregard intentionally or let pass

v. leave undone or leave out

Word Usage

""pretermit" -- to use his own expression -- a narrative which he held essential to his fame."

Verb Form

pretermits pretermitted pretermitting

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

disregard neglect ignore

Variant

pretermitted pretermitting

Hyponym

Passover skip forget skip over jump

Form

pretermitted pretermitting pretermitted heir pretermitted spouse pretermitted child

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

omit disregard