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noun

  • The gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary