Definition of "apocopate" []

• Shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable (adjective)
• Jussive (adjective)
• To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable (verb)

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• "As often as they are guilty of interpolating meaningless interjections into their speech, thus giving their hearers the impression that they are saying a great deal more because they are talking a great deal more (or, perhaps by talking more, albeit saying less, they create the illusion that their limited vocabularies are capable of more expression, if not more expressiveness), speakers also tend to apocopate the language."
• "- cutting off end of word. apocopate, v. & a. adj., n."