apocopates
/əˈpɑkəˌpeɪts/
verb
- Shortens a word by dropping one or more sounds or letters from the end.
- When texting, people frequently apocopates words like 'brother' to 'bro'.
- In casual speech, English often apocopates 'because' to 'cause'.
- The poet apocopates certain words to fit the meter of the line.