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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dispossess

/dɪspəˈzəs/ verb

Forms dispossesses dispossessing dispossessed

  1. verb To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
  2. verb To deprive someone of possession in general.
  3. verb (sports) To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French despossesser. Equivalent to dis- + possess.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; --usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.

Etymology [Pref. dis- + possess: cf. F. déposséder.]

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

Sanskrit

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