Abridge
The crossword clue "Abridge" is answered by ELIDE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ELIDE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELIDE answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for ELIDE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELIDE, most used first.
- Slur over - used 82 times, most recently in 2020
- Skip over - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Omit in pronunciation - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Pass over - used 34 times, most recently in 2017
- Leave out - used 31 times, most recently in 2012
- Omit - used 29 times, most recently in 2020
- Suppress - used 20 times, most recently in 1993
- Ignore. - used 15 times, most recently in 2003
- Ignore in pronunciation - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Omit phonetically - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Skip a syllable - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Leave out in pronunciation - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Omit in speech - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Skip a sound - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Drop in pronunciation - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Skip, as a syllable - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Leave out, in speech - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Say "somethin'" - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Say "y'all," say - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Skip - used 8 times, most recently in 2003
- Skip over in speech - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Slur over a syllable - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Strike out - used 8 times, most recently in 1986
- Apocopate. - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
- Say "nothin'," say - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Skip over, as a vowel - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
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