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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crumple

/ˈkɹʌmpəl/ noun, verb

Forms crumples crumpling crumpled

  1. noun A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
  2. verb (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together. “He crumpled the note and threw it away.”
  3. verb (transitive) To cause to collapse. “He crumpled the car's body panels when he backed into a post.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To become wrinkled. “The car's body panels crumpled when they hit the post.”
  5. verb (intransitive, figurative) To collapse; to surrender. “The team's defensive strategy crumpled.”

Synonyms

buckle cave cave in fold crumble tumble break down collapse pucker rumple cockle knit wrinkle crease crinkle

Etymology

From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
  2. verb To contract irregularly; to show wrinkless after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

Etymology [Dim. fr. crump, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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