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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discredit

/dɪsˈkɹɛd.ɪt/ verb, noun

Forms discredits discrediting discredited

  1. verb (transitive) To harm the good reputation of (a person). “The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause (an idea or piece of evidence) to seem false or unreliable. “The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.”
  3. noun (countable or uncountable) Discrediting or disbelieving.
  4. noun (countable) A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
  5. noun (uncountable) The state of being discredited or disbelieved. “Later accounts have brought the story into discredit.”
  6. noun (uncountable) A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.

Synonyms

demean disgrace dishonour abase bring down to size cut down to size debase defame degrade demote depress disparage downgrade embase give a bad name humble humiliate knock down to size put someone in their place reduce disrepute disbelieve

Etymology

Cf. F. discrédit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
  2. noun Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; --applied to persons or things.
  3. verb To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
  4. verb To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of. An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype.

Etymology [Cf. F. discréditer.]

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