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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empower

UK /ɪmˈpaʊ.ə/ · US /ɪmˈpaʊ.əɹ/ verb

Forms empowers empowering empowered empowre impower impowre

  1. verb (transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
  2. verb (transitive) To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. “John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.”

Synonyms

allow let permit inspire authorise authorize endow indue gift invest endue

Antonyms

ban bar forbid prohibit banish criminalize debar disallow enjoin estop forspeak foresnaffle

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
  2. verb To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." Keble.

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

Sanskrit

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