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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addict

/ˈæd.ɪkt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms addicts addicting addicted

  1. noun A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug. “a heroin addict”
  2. noun An adherent or fan (of something).
  3. adjective (now rare) Addicted.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Bound, tied to, obligated.
  5. verb (transitive, Ancient Rome) To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.
  6. verb (reflexive, now rare, archaic) To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.
  8. verb (reflexive, obsolete) To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.
  9. verb (transitive, now rare, archaic) To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
  10. verb (transitive) To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.

Synonyms

junkie slave adherent aficionado devotee enthusiast fan habitue abuser fiend wastoid get hooked consecrate dedicate devote adapt fit nut freak junky hook

Antonyms

abstainer mainstreamer nonaddict

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. participle Addicted; devoted. [Obs.]
  2. verb To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; --with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." Evelyn.
  3. verb To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. addictus, p. p. of addicere to adjudge, devote; ad + dicere to say. See Diction.]

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

Sanskrit

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