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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excite

/ɪkˈsaɪt/ verb

Forms excites exciting excited excitest excitedst exciteth

  1. verb (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. “The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.”
  2. verb (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. “Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.”
  3. verb (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. “By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited, then emit a photon when returning to normal.”
  4. verb To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in. “to excite a dynamo”

Synonyms

affect move touch instigate fire provoke abet actuate goose fuel light a fire under send sting bring about cheer draw drive encourage egg on engender stimulate stir agitate rouse turn on charge commove charge up arouse sex

Antonyms

relax calm

Etymology

From Middle English exciten, from Old French exciter, from Latin excitō (“to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”), frequentative of excieō (“to call out, arouse, excite”), from ex (“out”) + cieō (“to call, summon”). See cite and compare to accite, concite, incite.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
  2. verb To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

Etymology [L. excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: cf. OF. esciter, exciter, F. exciter. See Cite.]

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

Sanskrit

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