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1. the dropping of a sound or sounds in the middle of a word when it is spoken, for example the pronunciation of library as /laɪbri/ Compare : apocopeTopics
   Word Originlate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek sunkopÄ“, from sun- ‘together’ + koptein ‘strike, cut off’.

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