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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convince

/kənˈvɪns/ verb

Forms convinces convincing convinced

  1. verb To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence. “I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.”
  2. verb To persuade.
  3. verb (obsolete, transitive) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
  4. verb (acting) To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To confute; to prove wrong.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To prove guilty; to convict.

Synonyms

assure convert convict satisfy win over bring round draw gain over persuade pimp prevail upon procure push suade talk around talk over wash with beat bring down chew up

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convincō (“to refute, prove”), from con- + vincō (“to conquer, vanquish”). Doublet of convict. Displaced native Old English oferreċċan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. [Obs.]
  2. verb To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.

Etymology [L. convincere, -victum, to refute, prove; con- + vincere to conquer. See Victor, and cf. Convict.]

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

Sanskrit

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