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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blooded

/ˈblʌ.dəd/ adjective

Also a form of blood

  1. adjective bloody, bleeding.
  2. adjective Experienced (especially in warfare). “I'll let a rookie march behind me with a loaded weapon once he's been blooded in combat, until then he stays in front where I can see which way he's pointing.”
  3. adjective (zoology) Having a certain physiological characteristic, particularly in relation to blood or the circulatory system. “Mammals are warm-blooded.”
  4. adjective (figurative) Having a certain kind of temperament or disposition. “Only a cold-blooded killer could have done something like this.”
  5. adjective (figurative, sometimes offensive in compounds that refer to purity or partial degrees) Having ancestry to a certain degree. “He's a full-blooded Irishman.”
  6. adjective (figurative, sometimes derogatory) Having a certain ancestry. “A blue-blooded aristocrat.”
  7. adjective (zoology, of horses, cattle, etc.) Derived from ancestors of good blood; having a good pedigree.

Synonyms

full-blooded full-blood

Antonyms

unblooded

Etymology

From Middle English bloded, equivalent to blood + -ed.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.

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