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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decimate

UK /ˈdɛsɪmeɪt/ · US /ˈdɛsəmeɪt/ verb, noun

Forms decimates decimating decimated

  1. verb (archaic) To kill one-tenth of (a group), (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
  2. verb To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).
  3. verb (loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
  4. verb (obsolete) To exact a tithe or other 10% tax.
  5. verb (obsolete, rare) To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.
  6. verb (obsolete) To divide into tenths; to decimalize.
  7. verb (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
  8. verb (computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)
  9. noun A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
  10. noun A tenth of something.
  11. noun A set of ten items.

Synonyms

tithe eliminate annihilate extinguish eradicate wipe out carry off

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1591, the noun in 1641; borrowed from Latin decimātus, perfect passive participle of decimō (“to kill one tenth; to tithe”) (see, from -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from decimus (“tenth”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). As a noun, via Latin decimatus (“tithing area; tithing rights”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Johnson.
  2. verb To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. Macaulay.

Etymology [L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to decimate (in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See Decimal.]

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