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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amaze

/əˈmeɪz/ verb, noun

Forms amazes amazing amazed amazest amazedst amazeth

  1. verb To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise. “He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.”
  2. verb (obsolete) To stun or stupefy (someone).
  3. verb (obsolete, also reflexive) To bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself).
  4. verb (obsolete, poetic) To fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to terrify.
  5. verb (intransitive, archaic) To experience amazement; to be astounded.
  6. noun (except poetic, uncountable) Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this.
  7. noun (uncountable) Fear, terror.
  8. noun (obsolete, uncountable) Stupefaction of the mind; bewilderment; (countable) an instance of this.

Synonyms

astonish astound bewitch surprise wow amazement amazeballs perplex vex stick get puzzle mystify baffle beat pose bewilder flummox stupefy nonplus gravel dumbfound

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English *amasen, *amase (“to bewilder, perplex”) (attested chiefly in the past participle form, and thus often difficult to distinguish from amased (adjective)), from Old English āmasian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ā- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound, confuse, perplex; to amaze”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)). The English word is analysable as a- (intensifying prefix) + maze (“(archaic) to astonish, amaze, bewilder; to daze, stupefy”).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English amase, from the verb: see above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.]
  2. verb To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith.
  3. verb To be astounded. [Archaic] B. Taylor.
  4. verb Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic]

Etymology [Pref. a- + maze.]

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