syncopate
/ˈsɪŋkəpeɪt/verb
with obj.
1
- usu. as adj. syncopated displace the beats or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa（音乐, 节律中的）切分：
syncopated dance music.
多切分音的舞曲。
2
- shorten (a word) by dropping sounds or letters in the middle, as in symbology for symbolology, or Gloster for Gloucester词中省略（如symbology表示symbolology或Gloster表示Gloucester）。
派生词
syncopation
nounsyncopator
noun词源
early 17th cent.: from late Latin syncopat- ,affected with syncope, from the verb syncopare ,to swoon, （see SYNCOPE）.