- omit to do something
- formal
to fail to do something that would have been helpful or honest
The problem was, he had omitted to divorce his first wife.
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omit to do something
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omit to do something — formal phrase to fail to do something that would have been helpful or honest The problem was, he had omitted to divorce his first wife. Thesaurus: to not act, or to not do somethingsynonym Main entry: omit … Useful english dictionary
omit — [[t]oʊmɪ̱t[/t]] omits, omitting, omitted 1) VERB If you omit something, you do not include it in an activity or piece or work, deliberately or accidentally. [V n] Omit the salt in this recipe... [V n from n] Our apologies to David Pannick for… … English dictionary
omit */*/ — UK [əʊˈmɪt] / US [oʊˈmɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms omit : present tense I/you/we/they omit he/she/it omits present participle omitting past tense omitted past participle omitted to fail to include someone or something, either deliberately or… … English dictionary
omit — o|mit [ ou mıt ] verb transitive ** to fail to include someone or something, either deliberately or because you forget: Important details had been omitted from the article. omit to do something FORMAL to fail to do something that would have been… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
omit — o|mit [əuˈmıt, ə US ou , ə ] v past tense and past participle omitted present participle omitting [T] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: omittere] 1.) to not include someone or something, either deliberately or because you forget to do it =… … Dictionary of contemporary English
omit — 01. We generally [omit] salt if it is in a recipe for something we are making because it s usually not really necessary. 02. The newspaper [omitted] a lot of stuff from my letter when they published it. 03. Too many historical documents relating… … Grammatical examples in English
omit omitted, omitting — verb (T) 1 to not include someone or something, either deliberately or because you forget to do it; leave out (leave1): Please don t omit any details, however trivial they may seem. 2 omit to do sth formal to not do something, either because you… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
omit — /əυ mɪt/ verb not to do something ● He omitted to tell the managing director that he had lost the documents. (NOTE: omitting–omitted) ♦ to omit a dividend US to pay no dividend in a certain year … Dictionary of banking and finance
omit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. neglect, skip, spare, overlook; delete, remove, reject; evade, except, exclude, miss, drop; pass, forget. Ant., add, include. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To fail to include] Syn. leave out, except,… … English dictionary for students
omit — [əʊˈmɪt] verb [T] to fail to include someone or something Important details had been omitted from the article.[/ex] … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
