Usually means: Omission of sound from word's start.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word aphaeresis:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. aphaeresis: Merriam-Webster
  2. aphaeresis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aphaeresis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aphaeresis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aphaeresis: Vocabulary.com
  6. aphaeresis: Wordnik
  7. aphaeresis: Wiktionary
  8. aphaeresis: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Aphaeresis, aphaeresis: Dictionary.com
  10. Aphaeresis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. aphaeresis: Rhymezone
  12. Aphaeresis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. aphaeresis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. aphaeresis: FreeDictionary.org
  15. aphaeresis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. aphaeresis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. aphaeresis: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. APHAERESIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aphaeresis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. aphaeresis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. aphaeresis: Medical dictionary

(Note: See aphaereses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Aphaeresis)

noun:  (UK, Canada) Alternative spelling of apheresis [(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.]

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