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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discomfit

/dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/ verb

Forms discomfits discomfiting discomfitting discomfited discomfitted

  1. verb (transitive) To embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert. “Don't worry. Your joke did not really discomfit me.”
  2. verb (rare) To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate; disconcert.
  3. verb (archaic) To defeat completely; to rout.

Synonyms

abash disconcert abase bring low confuse confound debase degrade demean depress dishonour embarrass humble humiliate lower mortify put to shame shame foil thwart upset discompose untune

Etymology

From Middle English discomfiten, from Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire (“to undo, to destroy”), from des- (“completely”), from Latin dis- + Old French confire (“to make”), from Latin cōnficiō (“to finish up, to destroy”), from com- (“with, together”) + faciō (“to do, to make”).
Later sense of “to embarrass, to disconcert” due to confusion with unrelated discomfort.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
  2. verb To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk Well, go with me and be not so discomfited. Shak.
  3. adjective Discomfited; overthrown. [Obs.]
  4. noun Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.

Etymology [OF. desconfit, p. p. of desconfire, F. déconfire; fr. L. dis- + conficere to make ready, prepare, bring about. See Comfit, Fact.]

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