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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hurtle

UK /ˈhɜːtl̩/ · US /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/ verb, noun

Forms hurtles hurtling hurtled hurtlest hurtledst hurtleth

  1. verb To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl. “He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.”
  2. verb To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.
  3. verb (figuratively) To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
  4. verb To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner. “The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.”
  5. verb Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash.
  6. verb To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
  7. verb (figuratively) Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.
  8. noun (countable) An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
  9. noun (countable, also figuratively) A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
  10. noun (countable) A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
  11. noun (uncountable, figuratively) (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
  12. noun (obsolete, rare) Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).

Synonyms

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

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English hurtelen, hurtlen (“to cast, hurl, throw; to charge at; to clash in combat, fight; to collide; to injure; to knock down; to propel, push, thrust; to rush; to stumble”) [and other forms], from hurten (“to injure, wound, hurt (physically or figuratively); to damage, impair; to hurt one’s feelings, humiliate; to receive an injury; to collide into; to propel, push, thrust; to stumble”) (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
The noun is derived from the verb.

Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).

See hurdle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
  2. verb To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
  3. verb To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
  4. verb To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Etymology [OE. hurtlen, freq. of hurten. See Hurt, v. t., and cf. Hurl.]

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