different between expurgate vs omit

English

Etymology

From Latin expurg?tus, perfect passive participle of expurg? (“purge, cleanse, purify”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks.p?.?e?t/

Verb

expurgate (third-person singular simple present expurgates, present participle expurgating, simple past and past participle expurgated)

1. (transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.

   The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.

2. (transitive) To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.

   The publisher decided to expurgate the book, which meant removing the love scene.

Derived terms

• expurgator
• expurgatory
• expurgatorious

Related terms

Translations

See also

• bowdlerise

Latin

Participle

exp?rg?te

1. vocative masculine singular of exp?rg?tus

English

Etymology

At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittere, present active infinitive of omitt? (“to let go”), from ob- + mitt? (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

omit (third-person singular simple present omits, present participle omitting, simple past and past participle omitted)

1. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
2. (transitive) To fail to perform.
3. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

Synonyms

• (leave out or exclude): leave off, miss out; see also Thesaurus:omit
• (fail to perform):
• (take no notice of): disregard, ignore, pass, turn a blind eye

Related terms

• omission
• mission
• elide

Translations

Anagrams

• Mito, mito, mito-

Finnish

Verb

omit

1. Second-person singular indicative present form of omia.
2. Second-person singular indicative past form of omia.

Anagrams

• Timo, Tomi, moti, toim, toim., tomi

French

Verb

omit

1. third-person singular past historic of omettre