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Definition
to exclude or neglect something- She recounted the whole story except that she omitted names.
- He omitted a few details to place himself in a more favorable light.
- Don't omit the details in your report.
- Not a fact has been omitted, not a detail has been exaggerated.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- Their time being limited (no one knew why) they had omitted France.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- I omitted to mention her until now because she was largely omitted from the consciousness of Bigger Thomas.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- Mr. Ratchett had omitted to put his watch back an hour as he should have done at Tzaribrod .Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- It expressly omitted the loyal slave states from its terms.Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- And now—what had she done, or what had she omitted to do, to merit such a change?Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- From the time the Shabatas had first moved to the neighboring farm, she had omitted no opportunity of throwing Marie and Emil together.Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
- Dear mistress, I was there and will relate The perfect truth, omitting not one word.Sophocles -- Antigone
- He never omitted the ceremony afterwards, and the gravity and quiescence with which I underwent it, seemed to invest it for him with a certain charm.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- I admitted almost everything about Ethan, omitting only the part about making love.Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- To omit a word always, to resort to inept metaphors and obvious periphrases, is perhaps the most emphatic way of stressing it.Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
- And you would do well to omit must from any speech directed at me.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- Renly, Stannis, Joffrey, Tommen .... how did he come to omit Balon Greyjoy and Robb Stark?George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- He omitted one detail: For the sake of Mac and his family, he said nothing of how the chocolate had been lost.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Again, I told the truth, only omitting a bloodsucking, Imprinting detail here and an I-don't-trust-youanymore detail there.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- He omitted no opportunity of being with them, threw himself in their way, called at all hours; but I need not be particular on this subject.Jane Austen -- Persuasion