Meaning & use
omitting
Leaving out or failing to include something, whether deliberately or by oversight.
See it in a sentence
The report was criticized for omitting key financial figures from last quarter.
She rewrote the essay, omitting several redundant sentences from the draft.
A note on using this word
Omitting is the present participle of 'omit', often followed by an object or a gerund phrase.
Words with a similar meaning
excludingleaving out
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Words with an opposite meaning
including
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