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PRETERMIT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: pretermitted    , pretermitting   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leave undone or leave out

Example:

The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten

Synonyms:

drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pretermit"):

forget (forget to do something)

jump; pass over; skip; skip over (bypass)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

pretermission (letting pass without notice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disregard intentionally or let pass

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "pretermit" is one way to...):

disregard; ignore; neglect (give little or no attention to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pretermission (letting pass without notice)

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