| Back | syncope /SING-kuh-pee/ |
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| Front | noun 1. The shortening of a word by omission of sounds or letters from its middle. For example, did not to didn't or Worcester to Wooster. 2. Fainting caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain. [From Latin syncope, from Greek synkope (contraction, cutting off), from syn- (together) + koptein (to cut). Earliest documented use: c. 1400.] "There were important books on vowel syncope in Greek and Indo-European." - Robert Coleman; Oswald Szemerenyi -- Hungary's Eclectic Cockney Linguist; The Guardian (London, UK); Feb 24, 1997. "'I'm no doctor, but they say I just fainted,' said Pavelec, who had what is termed a neurocardiogenic syncope episode." - NHL Report; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Oct 20, 2010. |
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