omit

verb

omitted; omitting

transitive verb

1
: to leave out or leave unmentioned
omits one important detail
You can omit the salt from the recipe.
2
: to leave undone : fail
The patient omitted taking his medication.
3
obsolete : disregard
4
obsolete : give up

Examples of omit in a Sentence

Please don't omit any details. you must not omit mentioning the sources you used in researching your paper
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Newman had initially been the highest profile player to refuse to renegotiate his MLP deal, and stood firm on being basically omitted from PPA events for the next three years. Todd Boss, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 According to Cleaning the Glass, an advanced analytics database that omits stats compiled in garbage time, Valančiūnas also ranks among the league’s most efficient big men in defensive-rebounding percentage, offensive-rebounding percentage and assist percentage. David Aldridge, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025 The decision to exclude the protagonist’s earlier life works overall, though a couple of brief flashbacks to childhood traumas raise so many unanswered questions, they might better have been omitted entirely. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025 Still, those omitted Wednesday might find consolation in the fact that the DGA and Oscars partly but rarely fully overlap. Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for omit 

Word History

Etymology

Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere, from ob- toward + mittere to let go, send — more at ob-

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of omit was in the 15th century

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Cite this Entry

“Omit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/omit. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Kids Definition

omit

verb
omitted; omitting
1
: to leave out
omitted your name from the list
2
: to fail to do : neglect
omitted to mention that it was my fault

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