omit

Verb

Verb Forms: omitted, omitting, omits

To leave out or fail to include.
prevent from being included or considered or accepted
leave undone or leave out
To leave out or exclude.
To fail to perform.
To delete or remove; to strike.
To neglect or take no notice of.

Examples

He chose to omit the ’E’ from ’PLATE’ to form ’PLAT’ for a better hook.

Origin / Etymology

At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.

Synonyms

drop, except, exclude, leave off, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit, take out, disregard, ignore, miss off, miss out, omit, pass, skip, turn a blind eye

Antonyms

attend to, include

Scrabble Score: 6

omit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
omit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
omit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

omit: valid Words With Friends Word