ELIDING Synonyms

• fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

• act of decreasing in length

• the act of adding decoration

• a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment

• cutting down to the desired size or shape

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• lessen, diminish, or curtail

• place restrictions on

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent

• remove or make invisible

• wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

• cut or eliminate

• prevent from being included or considered or accepted

• prevent from entering; shut out

• lack or fail to include

• prevent from entering; keep out

• put out or expel from a place

• prevent from being included or considered or accepted

• leave undone or leave out

• bring under control by force or authority

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior

• put out of one's consciousness

• lessen to the point of stopping

• terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

• replace a corner by a plane

• approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one

• make shorter as if by cutting off