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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effuse

/ɪˈfjuːs/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms effuses effusing effused

  1. adjective Poured out freely; profuse.
  2. adjective Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
  3. adjective (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side. “an effuse inflorescence”
  4. adjective (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
  5. verb (transitive) To emit; to give off.
  6. verb (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
  7. verb (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
  8. verb (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.
  9. noun (obsolete) effusion; loss

Synonyms

pour out flow out

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (“to pour out”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Poured out freely; profuse. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. [Obs.] Young.
  3. noun Effusion; loss. "Much effuse of blood." Shak.
  4. verb To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed. [R.]

Etymology [L. effusus, p. p. of effundere to pour out; ex + fundere to pour. See Fuse to melt.]

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

Sanskrit

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