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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deface

/dɪˈfeɪs/ verb

Forms defaces defacing defaced

  1. verb To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. “After the painting was defaced a decade ago, it went viral and has been a tourist attraction ever since.”
  2. verb To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. “He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.”
  3. verb (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. “You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.”

Synonyms

disfigure mar obliterate scar vandalize cancel devalue nullify void befoul besmirch blemish blight contaminate contort damage defame defile deform demolish

Antonyms

beautify fix rectify

Etymology

From Middle English defacen, from Old French defacier, desfacier (“to mutilate, destroy, disfigure”), from des- (“away from”) (see dis-) + Late Latin facia.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson.
  2. verb To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. defacen to disfigure, efface, OF. desfacier; L. dis- + facies face. See Face, and cf. Efface.]

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