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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dissociate

UK /dɪˈsəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ · US /dɪˈsoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ verb

Forms dissociates dissociating dissociated

  1. verb (intransitive) To cease associating; To part. “After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other.”
  2. verb (intransitive, psychology) To undergo dissociation. “Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating.”
  3. verb (intransitive, chemistry) To undergo dissociation.
  4. verb (transitive) To cease associating with; to make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate. “A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority.”
  5. verb (transitive, chemistry) To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis. “We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating”

Synonyms

disassociate divorce disunite disjoint decouple

Antonyms

associate

Etymology

From Latin dissociō + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dis- (“apart”) + sociō (“join”), from socius (“related, leagued”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

Etymology [L. dissociatus, p. p. of dissociare to dissociate; dis- + sociare to unite, associate, socius companion. See Social.]

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