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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 syn·a·le·pha /ˌsɪnəˈlifə/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Syn·a·le·pha n.  Gram. A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]
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