Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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undress

/ʌnˈdɹɛs/ verb, noun

Forms undresses undressing undressed

  1. verb (reflexive, now rare) To remove one's clothing. “She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To remove one’s clothing. “The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.”
  3. verb (transitive) To remove the clothing of (someone). “Mary began to undress her daughter in preparation for bathtime.”
  4. verb (transitive, figuratively) To strip something off.
  5. verb To take the dressing, or covering, from. “to undress a wound”
  6. noun (now archaic or historical) Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public.
  7. noun (now archaic or historical) Informal clothing for men, as opposed to formal or ceremonial wear.
  8. noun Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on. “She returned to her dorm to find her roommate, fresh out of the shower, in a state of undress.”

Synonyms

disrobe denude despoil dismantle divest doff peel put off strip strip down strip off unclothe discase uncase disinvest

Antonyms

dress clothe

Etymology

From Middle English undressen, equivalent to un- + dress. Compare Old English unsċrȳdan (“to undress”, literally “un-shroud”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To divest of clothes; to strip.
  2. verb To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  3. noun A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
  4. noun An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform. Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

Etymology [1st pref. un- + dress.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “undress”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “undress” (best matches first).