Elide

1. v. t. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
2. v. t. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.