SYNCOPATE
- to shorten a word by cutting out its middle [v SYNCOPATED, SYNCOPATING, SYNCOPATES]
- Displace the beats or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa
- Shorten (a word) by dropping sounds or letters in the middle, as in symbology for symbolology, or Gloster for Gloucester
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