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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dare

UK /dɛə/ · US /dɛ(ə)ɹ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms dares daring dared dast durst

  1. verb (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something). “I wouldn't dare (to) argue with my boss.”
  2. verb (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something). “I dare you to kiss that girl.”
  3. verb (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to. “Will you dare death to reach your goal?”
  4. verb (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
  5. verb (archaic, transitive) To drive larks to the ground by scaring them (for instance, with mirrors or hawks) so they can be caught in nets.
  6. noun A challenge to prove courage. “I did it just for a dare.”
  7. noun The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
  8. noun Defiance; challenge.
  9. noun (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. “When asked truth or dare, she picked dare.”
  10. verb (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
  11. verb (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
  12. noun A small fish, the dace
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

venture daring make bold presume defy

Etymology

From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, German thüren, Sanskrit दधर्ष (dadhárṣa), but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть (derzátʹ).

From Middle English daren, from Old English darian.

English surname, spelling variant of Dear.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
  2. verb To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
  3. verb To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
  4. noun The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.]

Etymology [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gadaúrsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. sq. root70.]

Etymology [OE. darien, to lie hidden, be timid.]

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

Sanskrit

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