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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depose

UK /dɪˈpəʊz/ · US /diˈpoʊz/ verb

Forms deposes deposing deposed

  1. verb (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  2. verb (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them). “A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.”
  3. verb (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
  4. verb (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer. “After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
  6. verb To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

Synonyms

declare depone testify force out swear

Antonyms

restore

Etymology

Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside. [Obs.]
  2. verb To let fall; to deposit. [Obs.]
  3. verb To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.

Etymology [FF. déposer, in the sense of L. deponere to put down; but from pref. dé- (L. de) + poser to place. See Pose, Pause.]

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