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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OMIT', v.t. [L. omitto; ob and mitto, to send.]
1. To leave, pass by or neglect; to fail or forbear to do or to use; as, to omit an opportunity of writing a letter. To omit known duty is criminal.
2. To leave out; not to insert or mention; as, to omit an important word in a deed; to omit invidious comparisons; to omit a passage in reading or transcribing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include]
2: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (omitted; omitting) Etymology: Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere, from ob- toward + mittere to let go, send — more at ob- Date: 15th century 1. to leave out or leave unmentioned <omits one important detail> 2. to leave undone ; fail 3. obsolete disregard 4. obsolete give up

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (omitted, omitting) 1 leave out; not insert or include. 2 leave undone. 3 (foll. by verbal noun or to + infin.) fail or neglect (omitted saying anything; omitted to say). Derivatives: omissible adj. Etymology: ME f. L omittere omiss- (as OB-, mittere send)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Omit O*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Omitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Omitting.] [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see Ob- + mittere to cause to go, let go, send. See Mission.] 1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. These personal comparisons I omit. --Bacon. 2. To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect. Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(omits, omitting, omitted) 1. If you omit something, you do not include it in an activity or piece of work, deliberately or accidentally. Omit the salt in this recipe... Our apologies to David Pannick for omitting his name from last week's article. = leave out ? include VERB: V n, V n from n 2. If you omit to do something, you do not do it. (FORMAL) His new girlfriend had omitted to tell him she was married. = fail VERB: V to-inf

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Leave out, drop. 2. Neglect, miss, let slip, let go, pass by, disregard, pretermit.

Moby Thesaurus

abandon, abbreviate, abridge, ban, bar, bar out, blink at, blockade, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, count out, cross out, cut, cut off, cut out, debar, dele, delete, discount, disregard, edit, edit out, embargo, eradicate, erase, except, exclude, expunge, expurgate, fail, forget, freeze out, goldbrick, goof off, ignore, jump, keep out, kill, leave, leave loose ends, leave out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let slide, lock out, malinger, miss, neglect, obliterate, ostracize, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, preclude, pretermit, procrastinate, prohibit, reject, relegate, repudiate, rescind, rub out, send to Coventry, shirk, shut out, skip, slack, slight, strike, strike off, strike out, taboo, trifle, void