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noun
linguistics Omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'.
synonym: apheresis.
is a specific kind of: deletion, omission.
domain category: linguistics.
derivation: aphaeretic, apheretic.
Polish: afereza
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