apocopating
/əˈpɑkəˌpeɪtɪŋ/
verb
- The act of shortening a word by dropping one or more sounds or letters from the end.
- She was apocopating names to make them easier to pronounce quickly.
- The linguist studied how apocopating words changes their rhythm.
- Apocopating 'advertisement' to 'ad' is common in everyday conversation.
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adjective
- Relating to or characterized by the shortening of words at the end.
- His apocopating speech pattern made 'going' sound like 'goin'.'
- Some languages have apocopating rules that affect verb endings.
- The apocopating style of the dialect drops final vowels in many words.