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Definition of elision:

1. See elide.
2. The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable at the end of a word, as in poetry, in order to make the lines of the requisite length.

Synonyms:

ejection, bilabial, exception, close vowel, consonant, censure, excommunication, aspirate, assonance, closed syllable, alveolar, exclusion, aspiration, expulsion, riddance, affricate.

• subtraction (part of speech: noun)
  • deduction, 
  • curtailment, 
  • reduction, 
  • depreciation, 
  • lowering, 
  • diminishment, 
  • decrease, 
  • lessening, 
  • deletion, 
  • abridgement, 
  • subtraction