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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deflate

/diːˈfleɪt/ verb

Forms deflates deflating deflated

  1. verb (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
  3. verb (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
  4. verb (intransitive) To become deflated.
  5. verb (transitive) To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place. “deflate someone's ego”
  6. verb (transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
  7. verb (slang) To belch or flatulate

Synonyms

collapse puncture

Antonyms

inflate

Etymology

From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Equivalent to Latin dē- (“away, from”) + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To reduce from an inflated condition.

Etymology [Pref. de- down + L. flare, flatus to blow.]

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