Syncope

Language: English
Pronunciation: syn-cope
Part of Speech: noun

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The loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't, never to ne'er, or the pronunciation of the -cester ending in placenames as -ster (for example, Leicester pronounced Leister or Lester, and Worcester pronounced Wooster).

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"a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain"

"as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle'"

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