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Pretermit

Definition: Pretermit

Pretermit

Verb

1. Disregard intentionally or let pass.

2. Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Pretermit \Pre`ter*mit"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Pretermitted; present participle verb or noun Pretermitting.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Pretermit

Synonyms: drop (v), leave out (v), miss (v), neglect (v), omit (v), overleap (v), overlook (v). (additional references)
Antonym: attend to (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pretermit

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Neglect

Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pretermit

English words defined with "pretermit": Praetermit, Pretermitted, Pretermitting. (references)
Etymologies containing "pretermit": Pretermission. (references)

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Modern Translation: Pretermit

Language Translations for "pretermit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nuk vë re (disregard, look over, Miss, overlook, overpass, pass by, pass over), lë jashtë (elide, except, exclude, leave out, miss out, omit, shut out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отминавам с мълчание, прекъсвам (break in, break off, catch up, cease, cut, discontinue, halt, intercept, interpose, interrupt, open, quit, release, stop, switch off, throw out), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away). (various references)

   

Czech

  

opominout (neglect). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραλείπω (cut out, elide, fail, leave out, miss out, omission, omit, pass over, skip). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elhallgat (dry up, fall silent, hush up, to choke up, to dry up, to shut up, to shut up shop, to stint, to suppress). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etermitpray

   

Portuguese

  

pretermitir, preterir (leave out, omit, overlook, postpone), pôr de parte (forgo, relinquish, repel, shelve), omitir (default, dele, elide, expurgate, forget, leave out, omit, overjump, overleap, overlook). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

omite (balk, baulk, forget, jump, leave, neglect, omit, overlook, retrench), nu se interesa, nu aminti. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прервать, пренебречь. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

propuštati (admit, leak), izostavljati (omit). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

omitir (count out, drop, elide, forbore, jump, leave aside, leave out, Miss, miss out, neglect, omit, pass over, skip). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förbigå (ignore, leave out, pass by, pass over, pass over in silence). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зробити перерву, зневажити, пропустити (throw away), перебити. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Pretermit

Derivations

Words beginning with "pretermit": pretermits, pretermitted, pretermitting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Pretermit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: permitter.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-r-t-t"

-1 letter: preterit, prettier, remitter, trimeter.

-2 letters: emitter, emptier, miterer, pettier, premier, preterm, pretrim, tempter, termite, trireme.

-3 letters: empire, epimer, metier, permit, perter, petite, petter, premie, primer, reemit, retime, retire, retrim, ritter, temper, termer, terret, territ, trimer, triter.

-4 letters: merer, merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, peter, petit, petti, prier, prime, remet, remit, retem, retie, rimer, riper.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: permitters, pretermits.

 

+3 letters: misinterpret, premeditator, pretermitted.

 

+4 letters: interpermeate, misinterprets, prematurities, premeditators, preretirement, pretermitting, spectrometric.

 

+5 letters: distemperature, interpermeated, interpermeates, misinterpreted, multiparameter, petrochemistry, postretirement, preretirements, pretermination, spectrometries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pretermit


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 74 65 72 6D 69 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-.    .    -    .    .-.    --    ..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0074 0065 0072 006D 0069 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508471867184797586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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