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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abet

/əˈbɛt/ verb, noun

Forms abets abetting abetted

  1. verb (transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. “aid and abet”
  2. verb (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).
  3. verb (obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
  4. verb (obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
  5. noun (obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
  6. noun (obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.

Synonyms

collude conspire connive approve patronize sanction support tolerate instigate foment encourage actuate goose fuel light a fire under send sting bring about cheer draw

Antonyms

baffle confound counteract denounce deter behedge blunt crimp foreclose delay difficult diminish

Etymology

From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”), either from Middle Dutch bētan (“incite”) or from Old Norse beita (“to cause to bite, bait, incite”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to cause to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to set dogs on; to feed”).
Alternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through Old English *ābǣtan (“to hound on”), from ā- + bǣtan (“to bait”), from the same source (Proto-Germanic *baitijaną).
See also bait, bet.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; --used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South.
  2. verb To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; --in a good sense.
  3. noun Act of abetting; aid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [OF. abeter; a (L. ad) + beter to bait (as a bear), fr. Icel. beita to set dogs on, to feed, originally, to cause to bite, fr. Icel. bita to bite, hence to bait, to incite. See Bait, Bet.]

Etymology [OF. abet, fr. abeter.]

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