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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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famish

/ˈfamɪʃ/ verb

Forms famishes famishing famished

  1. verb (obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
  2. verb (transitive) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to cause to be very hungry.
  3. verb (transitive) To kill, or to cause great suffering to, by depriving or denying anything necessary.
  4. verb (transitive) To force, control, or constrain by famine.
  5. verb (intransitive) To die of hunger; to starve to death.
  6. verb (intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.
  7. verb (intransitive) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

Synonyms

starve hunger

Etymology

From Middle English famisshe, from famen (“starve”), from Old French afamer, ultimately from Latin famēs (“hunger”). Compare affamish, famine. Cognate with Spanish hambre (“hunger”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak.
  2. verb To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
  3. verb To die of hunger; to starve.
  4. verb To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

Etymology [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See Famine, and cf. Affamish.]

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