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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efface

/əˈfeɪs/ verb

Forms effaces effacing effaced

  1. verb (transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible. “Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out. “Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence. “Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.”
  4. verb (medicine, intransitive) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
  5. verb (medicine, intransitive) Of a woman: to have the cervix thin and stretch in this manner. “Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.”

Synonyms

rub out obliterate erase score out wipe off

Etymology

From Middle French effacer (“erase”), from Old French esfacier (“remove the face”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.
  2. verb To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

Etymology [F. effacer; pref. es- (L. ex) + face face; prop., to destroy the face or form. See Face, and cf. Deface.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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