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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abdicate

/ˈæb.dɪˌkeɪt/ verb

Forms abdicates abdicating abdicated

  1. verb (transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
  2. verb (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To depose.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
  5. verb (transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. “to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy”
  6. verb (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

Synonyms

abandon abjure cast aside cast off cede desert disinherit disown forego forsake give up quit refuse reject relent relinquish renounce repudiate resign retire

Antonyms

claim grasp maintain occupy retain seize usurp

Etymology

First attested in 1532; borrowed from Latin abdicātus (“renounced”), perfect passive participle of abdicō (“to renounce, reject, disclaim”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + dicō (“proclaim, dedicate, declare”), akin to dīcō (“to say”). Compare Middle English abdicat (“forsaken, renounced”).
Compare typologically abandon, Russian отказа́ться (otkazátʹsja), отре́чься (otréčʹsja).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
  2. verb To renounce; to relinquish; --said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke.
  3. verb To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.

Etymology [L. abdicatus, p.p. of abdicare; ab + dicare to proclaim, akin to dicere to say. See Diction.]

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

Sanskrit

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