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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worry

/ˈwʌ.ɹi/ verb, noun

Forms worries worrying worried

  1. verb (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
  2. verb (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise. “Your tone of voice worries me.”
  3. verb (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress. “The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.”
  4. verb (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf. “Your dog’s been worrying sheep again.”
  5. verb (transitive) To touch repeatedly; to fiddle with.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To strangle.
  7. noun A strong feeling of anxiety. “I'm afflicted by worry throughout the night.”
  8. noun An instance or cause of such a feeling. “My main worry is that I'll miss the train.”
  9. noun A person who causes worry.

Synonyms

fret stress fuss concern preoccupy vex gnaw care headache vexation trouble interest occupy

Antonyms

reassure

Etymology

From Middle English worien (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *wurgijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”).
Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit वृहति (vṛhati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
  2. verb To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague.
  3. verb To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries.
  4. noun A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry. "The whir and worry of spindle and of loom." Sir T. Browne.

Etymology [OE. worowen, wirien, to strangle, AS. wyrgan in awyrgan; akin to D. worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. würgen, Lith. verszti, and perhaps to E. wring.]

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

Sanskrit

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