omit
//əʊˈmɪt//
formalForms
- present (v1)
- omit
- past (v2)
- omitted
- past participle (v3)
- omitted
- present participle
- omitting
- 3rd person singular
- omits
Definitions
1.To leave out or exclude.
2.To fail to perform.
3.To delete or remove; to strike.
- In the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, omit sections 146(4) and 147(3) (homosexual acts as grounds for dismissal from the crew of merchant ships).
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #3986
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
At least by 1422
From late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”)
From ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.