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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complicate

UK /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt/ · US /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms complicates complicating complicated

  1. verb (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
  2. verb (transitive) To involve in a convoluted matter. “Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.”
  3. verb (medicine, transitive) To coexist with (another disease) creating a complication.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Intertwined.
  5. adjective (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.

Synonyms

intricate entangle embroil involve mix up mire complex complexify complify confuscate desimplify elaborate jazz make a meal of perplex refine rarify

Antonyms

decomplexify simplify uncomplicate

Etymology

First attested in the early 17th century; borrowed from Latin complicātus, perfect passive participle of complicō (“to fold together, fold up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“with, together with, in the company of, in connection with, along with, together, and”) + plicō (“to fold, wind, coil”); see plaid, and compare complex. See also Middle English complicate (“involved”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
  2. adjective Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.
  3. verb To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.

Etymology [L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See Complex.]

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

Sanskrit

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