syn|co|pate

syn|co|pate
syn|co|pate «SIHNG kuh payt», transitive verb, -pat|ed, -pat|ing.
1. Music. a) to begin (a tone) on an unaccented beat and hold it into an accented one. b) to shift (accents) to regularly unaccented beats. c) to introduce syncopation into (a passage).
2. Grammar. to shorten (a word) by omitting sounds or letters from the middle: »

Gloucester is usually syncopated to Gloster.

3. Figurative. to cut short: »

to syncopate a long report.

╂[< Late Latin syncopē (see etym. under syncope (Cf. ↑syncope)) + English -ate1. Compare Late Latin syncopāre to faint, swoon.]

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