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English noun: aphaeresis | |||
| 1. | aphaeresis (process) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | ||
| Synonyms | apheresis | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deletion, omission | ||
| Domain category | linguistics | ||
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