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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widen

/ˈwaɪdn̩/ verb, proper noun

Forms widens widening widened

  1. verb (intransitive) To become wide or wider. “His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.”
  2. verb (transitive) To make wide or wider.
  3. verb (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size. “She widened his trousers for him.”
  4. verb (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range. “The police widened their enquiries.”
  5. verb (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
  6. proper noun A surname from Swedish.

Synonyms

breadthen broaden enwiden thicken widthen let out extend

Antonyms

narrow lengthen shorten straiten

Etymology

From wide + -en (verbal suffix).

Borrowed from Swedish Widén.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
  2. verb To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

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

Sanskrit

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