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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erase

UK /ɪˈɹeɪz/ · US /ɪˈɹeɪs/ verb, noun

Forms erases erasing erased

  1. verb (transitive) To remove (markings or information). “I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.”
  2. verb (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. “I'm going to erase this tape.”
  3. verb (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. “I'm going to erase those files.”
  4. verb (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play “Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information). “The chalkboard erased easily.”
  6. verb (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
  7. verb (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
  8. noun (computing) The operation of deleting data.

Synonyms

wipe out rub out score out efface wipe off delete

Antonyms

record

Etymology

From Latin ērāsus, past participle of ērādere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
  2. verb Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; --used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.

Etymology [L. erasus, p. p. of eradere to erase; e out + radere to scrape, scratch, shave. See Rase.]

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

Sanskrit

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