aphetize

English

Verb

aphetize (third-person singular simple present aphetizes, present participle aphetizing, simple past and past participle aphetized)

(transitive, linguistics) To shorten by aphesis.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for aphetize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

hepatize

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