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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douse

/daʊs/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms douses dousing doused dowse douze douce dause

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
  2. verb (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
  3. verb (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
  4. noun A sudden plunging into water.
  5. verb (transitive) To strike, beat, or thrash.
  6. verb (transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly “Douse the topsail!”
  7. noun A blow or strike, especially to the face.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

put out dowse dip duck dunk souse plunge drench soak sop

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish dunsa (“to plumb down, fall clumsily”), Danish dunse (“to thump”). Compare Old English dwǣsċan (“to extinguish”) and douse below.

From Middle English duschen, dusshen (“to rush, fall”), related to Norwegian dusa (“to break, cast down from”), Old Dutch doesen (“to beat, strike”), dialectal German tusen, dusen (“to strike, run against, collide”), Saterland Frisian dössen (“to strike”). Compare doss, dust.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp.
  2. verb To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
  3. verb To fall suddenly into water. Hudibras.
  4. verb To put out; to extinguish. [Slang] " To douse the glim." Sir W. Scott.

Etymology [Cf. Dowse, and OD. donsen to strike with the fist on the back, Sw. dunsa to fall down violently and noisily; perh. akin to E. din.]

Etymology [AS. dwæscan. (Skeat.)]

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