Graham Hough's apparently objective assertion that 'Ozymandias' is 'extremely clear and direct', for example, elides the question of 'to whom?' — Bennet and Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory.
In linguistics, if you elide a word, you do not pronounce or write it fully. He complained about BBC announcers eliding their words. = contract. to leave out the sound of a letter or of a part of a word (elidere , from laedere )
To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision
If you elide something, especially a distinction, you leave it out or ignore it. These habits of thinking elide the difference between what is common and what is normal