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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deluge

UK /ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ/ · US /ˈdɛl.ju(d)ʒ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms deluges deluging deluged the Deluge

  1. noun A great flood or rain. “The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.”
  2. noun (figurative) An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. “The rock concert was a deluge of sound.”
  3. noun (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
  4. verb (transitive) To flood with water. “Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.”
  5. verb (transitive) To overwhelm. “After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.”
  6. proper noun (Abrahamic religion) The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.

Synonyms

Great Flood flood inundation torrent downpour cloudburst waterspout pelter soaker alluvion inundate swamp overwhelm flood out submerge

Etymology

From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
  2. noun Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. "The deluge of summer." Lowell.
  3. verb To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
  4. verb To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. At length corruption, like a general fldeluge all. Pope.

Etymology [F. déluge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. Diluvium.]

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

Sanskrit

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