Meaning & use

omitting

verb·Academic

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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