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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hurl

UK /hɜːl/ · US /hɝl/ verb, noun

Forms hurls hurling hurled

  1. verb (transitive) To throw (something) with force.
  2. verb (transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. “The gangs hurled abuse at each other.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To participate in the sport of hurling.
  4. verb (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To twist or turn.
  6. verb (obsolete) To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
  7. verb (Scotland, transitive, obsolete) To convey in a wheeled vehicle.
  8. noun (countable) A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. “He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.”
  9. noun (slang) The act of vomiting. “Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl.”
  10. noun (slang, uncountable) Vomit.
  11. noun (hurling, countable) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
  12. noun (Ulster, Scotland, slang, countable) A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
  13. noun (obsolete) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
  14. noun (obsolete, countable) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.

Synonyms

chuck fling bung cast chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch lob peck peg pick lunge thrust throw

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
  2. verb To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective. Spenser.
  3. verb To hurl one's self; to go quickly. [R.]
  4. verb To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).

Etymology [OE. hurlen, hourlen; prob. contracted fr. OE. hurtlen to hurtle, or probably akin to E. whirl. sq. root16. See Hurtle.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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