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Exact Match:

aposiopesis: breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)

Synonyms:

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Related Words:

elision collapse: omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

ellipsis collapse: omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

contraction collapse: the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope; (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber); a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'"

clipping collapse: an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"

figure of speech collapse

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

malapropism collapse: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

abbreviation collapse: shortening something by omitting parts of it; a shortened form of a word or phrase

simile collapse: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

metaphor collapse: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

speech collapse: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"; the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"; something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"

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