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Pretermit

verb
(past & past part. pretermitted; pres. part. pretermitting)
1.
Disregard intentionally or let pass.
2.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"






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"Pretermit" Quotes from Famous Books



... regard to; laisser aller [Fr.]. scamp; trifle, fribble^; do by halves; cut; slight &c (despise) 930; play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer [Fr.]; take a cursory view of &c 457. slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit^, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table [Parl.]; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to &c 457, not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Pretermit" :   forget, pretermission, disregard, jump, pass over, skip, skip over, ignore, attend to



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