单词: apocopate

中文含义: 缩略, 省略尾音

英语词性: verb

美式发音: əˈpɑ:kəˌpet

同义词: truncate, shorten, abbreviate

易混淆单词: elide, omit

双语例句:

  • It is common in poetry to apocopate words for metrical reasons.
  • Old Norse had a tendency to apocopate the final vowel of a noun in certain grammatical cases.
  • Their speech was apocopated and full of slang that I couldn’t understand.
  • The judge advised the witness to apocopate his statement to make it more concise.