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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falsify

/ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/ verb

Forms falsifies falsifying falsified

  1. verb To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive. “to falsify a record or document”
  2. verb To misrepresent.
  3. verb To counterfeit; to forge. “to falsify money”
  4. verb (sciences, otherwise archaic) To prove to be false.
  5. verb (accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
  6. verb (obsolete) To baffle or escape.
  7. verb (obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood. “to falsify one's faith or word”

Synonyms

distort garble warp fudge manipulate fake cook wangle misrepresent interpolate alter

Antonyms

correct

Etymology

From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make false; to represent falsely.
  2. verb To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
  3. verb To tell lies; to violate the truth.

Etymology [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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