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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brazen

/ˈbɹeɪ̯zən/ adjective, verb

Forms brazener brazenest brazens brazening brazened brasen

  1. adjective (archaic) Made of brass.
  2. adjective (figuratively) Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.
  3. adjective Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
  4. adjective (archaic) Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.
  5. adjective Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash. “She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on camera doing so.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To turn a brass color.
  7. verb (transitive) Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.

Synonyms

audacious barefaced bodacious bald-faced brassy brazen-faced insolent

Etymology

From Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen (“brazen, of brass”); equivalent to brass + -en (compare golden, wooden, etc.).
The word originally meant “of brass”; the figurative verb sense (as in brazen it out (“face impudently”)) dates from the 1550s (perhaps evoking the sense “face like brass, unmoving and not showing shame”), and the adjective sense “impudent” from the 1570s. Compare brass neck, bold as brass.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
  2. adjective Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
  3. verb To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.

Etymology [OE. brasen, AS. bræsen. See Brass.]

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

Sanskrit

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