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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depress

/dɪˈpɹɛs/ verb

Forms depresses depressing depressed

  1. verb To press down. “Depress the upper lever to start the machine.”
  2. verb To make depressed, sad or bored. “Winter depresses me.”
  3. verb (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy. “Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.”
  4. verb To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
  5. verb (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

Synonyms

downbear squash deject get down aggrieve attrist begloom begrieve besorrow grieve pain bring down come down on contristate darken dash desolate dispirit engrieve forset cast down dismay demoralize demoralise lower press down

Antonyms

cheer up elate

Etymology

From Middle English depressen, from Old French depresser, from Latin dēpressus, perfect participle of dēprimō (“to press down, to weigh down”), from dē- (“off, away, down, out”) + premō (“to press”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." Tennyson.
  2. verb To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
  3. adjective Having the middle lower than the border; concave. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. depressus, p. p. of deprimere; de- + premere to press. See Press.]

Etymology [L. depressus, p. p.]

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

Sanskrit

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