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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craze

/kɹeɪz/ noun, verb

Forms crazes crazing crazed crase craise craize

  1. noun A strong habitual desire or fancy.
  2. noun A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
  3. noun (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
  4. noun (archaic) Craziness; insanity.
  5. verb (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  6. verb To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  7. verb To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  8. verb (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  9. verb (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Synonyms

bug fad furor furore cult rage delirium frenzy fury hysteria madden

Etymology

From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Scots krass (“to crush, squeeze, wrinkle”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Faroese kras (“small pieces”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
  2. verb To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]
  3. verb To be crazed, or to act or appear as She would weep and he would craze. Keats.
  4. verb To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Etymology [OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl, to break to pieces, F. to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.]

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