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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fatigue

/fəˈtiːɡ/ noun, verb

Also a form of fatigues

Forms fatigues fatiguing fatigued

  1. noun A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
  2. noun (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
  3. noun (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
  4. verb (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
  5. verb (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
  6. verb (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
  7. verb (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
  8. verb (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue. “The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.”

Synonyms

tiredness exhaustedness exhaustion frazzle wornness weariness fatigue duty tire pall weary jade wear upon tire out wear wear out outwear wear down fag out fag

Etymology

From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fatīgāre (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”).

From French fatiguer, from Latin fatīgāre (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
  2. noun The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.
  3. verb To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

Etymology [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.]

Etymology [Cf. F. fatiguer. See Fatigue, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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