Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun aphaeresis

1 sense of aphaeresis

Sense 1
aphaeresis, apheresis -- ((linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until')
       => omission, deletion -- (any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)