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aphesis

DEFINITIONS OF: aphesis

1

n the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'

Type of:
deletion, omission
any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
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