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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inebriate

/ɪˈniːbɹiət/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms inebriates inebriating inebriated

  1. noun A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.
  4. verb (intransitive) To become drunk.
  5. adjective intoxicated; drunk

Synonyms

drunkard intoxicate drunk rummy sot wino exhilarate tickle pink thrill exalt beatify soak souse hit it up

Etymology

From Latin inēbriō, inēbriāre, from ēbrius (“drunk”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make drunk; to intoxicate.
  2. verb Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy.
  3. verb To become drunk. [Obs.] Bacon.
  4. adjective Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied.

Etymology [L. inebriatus, p. p. of inebriare; pref. in- in + ebriare to make drunk, fr. ebrius drunk. See Ebriety.]

Etymology [L. inebriatus, p. p.]

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

Sanskrit

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