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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disarm

UK /dɪsˈɑː(ɹ)m/ · US /dɪsˈɑɹm/ verb, noun

Forms disarms disarming disarmed

  1. verb (transitive) To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
  2. verb (transitive) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous. “to disarm a man's wrath”
  3. verb (intransitive) To lay down arms; to stand down.
  4. verb (intransitive) To reduce one's own military forces.
  5. verb (transitive) To render into a state in which something is no longer armed, or prepared for use (such as to disable the security systems on).
  6. noun The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry.

Synonyms

demilitarize demilitarise unarm

Antonyms

arm

Etymology

From Middle English desarmen (“to divest of arms”), from Anglo-Norman desarmer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
  2. verb To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

Etymology [OE. desarmen, F. désarmer; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + armer to arm. See Arm.]

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