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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embattled

UK /ɛmˈbætl̩d/ · US /ɛmˈbæt(ə)ld/ adjective

Also a form of embattle

  1. adjective Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).
  2. adjective Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
  3. adjective Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
  4. adjective (figuratively) Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
  5. adjective (architecture) Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
  6. adjective (by extension, heraldry) Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides.

Synonyms

assailed threatened crénelé battlemented castled castellated

Etymology

From embattle (“to equip as for battle”) + -ed.

From embattle (“to furnish with battlements”) + -ed.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. adjective Having the edge broken like battlements; --said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.

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