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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displace

/dɪsˈpleɪs/ verb

Forms displaces displacing displaced

  1. verb To put out of place; to disarrange.
  2. verb To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  3. verb To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  4. verb To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced. “Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.”
  5. verb (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  6. verb (psychology) To repress.

Synonyms

outplace preempt fire give notice can dismiss give the axe send away sack force out give the sack terminate move

Etymology

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
  2. verb To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

Etymology [Pref. dis- + place: cf. F. déplacer.]

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

Sanskrit

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