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Aphaeresis Moderate

Aphaeresis has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'

2

Alternative spelling of apheresis

See Also
clipping
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
omission
Rhyming Words
sis asis ssis osis csis psis isis apsis iasis mysis oasis arsis ensis assis basis lysis tasis sepsis miosis deesis
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