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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adulterate

/əˈdʌltəɹət/ adjective, verb

Forms adulterates adulterating adulterated adulteratest adulteratedst adulterateth

  1. adjective Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
  2. adjective Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
  3. verb (transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
  4. verb (transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances. “to adulterate coins, drugs, food and drink, etc.”
  5. verb (transitive, archaic) To commit adultery with (someone).
  6. verb (transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.
  7. verb (intransitive, also figuratively, archaic) To commit adultery.

Synonyms

lead astray sophisticate warp corrupt debauch demoralize detort file immoralize pervert pollute preposterate seduce suborn subvert tamper unmoralize vitiate adulter debase load stretch dilute adulterated debased

Antonyms

enrich rectify refine

Etymology

From Latin adulterātus (“adulterate, adulterated, defiled, polluted, counterfeited”), perfect passive participle of adulterō (“to adulterate, defile, commit adultery (with), counterfeit”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, in the direction of”) + alter (“other”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), literally “to go after someone else”. Equivalent to adultery + -ate.

From Latin adulterātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.
  2. verb To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words.
  3. verb To commit adultery. [Obs.]
  4. adjective Tainted with adultery.

Etymology [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]

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