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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deny

UK /dɪˈnaɪ/ · US /dəˈnaɪ/ verb

Forms denies denying denied denyed deniest denieth

  1. verb (transitive) To disallow or reject. “I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.”
  2. verb (transitive) To assert that something is not true. “to deny a rumour to deny an allegation”
  3. verb (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. “My father denied me a good education.”
  4. verb To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
  5. verb (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
  6. verb To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow. “Jesus prophesied that by the time the cock crowed, Peter would have denied him three times.”
  7. verb (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

Synonyms

contradict disclaim gainsay refute withsay forswear renounce abjure disavow disown forsay repudiate wash one's hands of refuse abnegate traverse

Antonyms

allow grant affirm confirm admit

Etymology

From Middle English denyen, from Old French denoier (“to deny, to repudiate”) (French dénier), from Latin denegare (“to deny, to refuse”), from de- (“away”) and negare (“to refuse”), the latter ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“no, not”). Doublet of denegate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; --opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
  2. verb To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce. [Obs.] "If you deny to dance." Shak.
  3. verb To answer in Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Gen.

Etymology [OE. denien, denaien, OF. denier, deneer, F. dénier, fr. L. denegare; de- + negare to say no, deny. See Negation.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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