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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evacuate

/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/ verb

Forms evacuates evacuating evacuated

  1. verb (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from. “The soldiers evacuated the fortress.”
  2. verb To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from. “The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.”
  3. verb To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum. “The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.”
  4. verb (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
  5. verb To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
  6. verb To make void; to nullify; to vacate. “to evacuate a contract or marriage”

Synonyms

void empty

Etymology

First attested in 1526; borrowed from Latin ēvacuātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvacuō (“to empty out, evacuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
  2. verb Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. [R.]
  3. verb To let blood [Obs.] Burton.

Etymology [l. evacuatus, p. p. of evacuare to empty, nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See Vacate.]

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

Sanskrit

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