aphaeresis
Noun
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(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' (synset 113454234)
domain category: linguistics - the scientific study of languagehypernym: deletion, omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrasessynonym: apheresis
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