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verb

omit

uh-MIT/əˈmɪt/

To leave something out or fail to do it.

The cook omits one tomato from the bowl.

A cook deliberately sets one tomato aside while putting the other vegetables into a bowl.
Etymology
oLatinperhaps adds emphasis
+mitLatinlet go, send

“Let go,” combined with a prefix that may be intensive, came to mean “lay aside” or “disregard.” To omit something is thus to leave it out rather than include or mention it.

In context

Yaron Brook12:25
they omit this issue of declining climate-related disaster deaths this is a climate research body and in their thousands of pages of reports they don't mention radical declines in climate-related disaster deaths
Yaron Interviews: Alex Epstein -- Fossil Future

More examples

  • She omitted one important detail.
  • The summary omits several minor events.
  • He apologized for omitting her name.

Forms

omit · omits · omitted · omitting

omission noun — something left out

Similar words

exclude
Exclude can be deliberate rejection; omit simply leaves something out, deliberately or accidentally.
forget
Forget loses something from memory; omit describes the resulting failure to include or do it, whatever the cause.