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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infringe

/ɪnˈfɹɪnd͡ʒ/ verb

Forms infringes infringing infringed enfringe

  1. verb (transitive) To break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.
  2. verb (intransitive) To break in or encroach on something. “infringing on my personal freedom”
  3. verb (transitive, dated) To furnish or embellish with a fringe.

Synonyms

flout infract impinge conflict run afoul contravene encroach

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfringō, īnfringere (“to break off, break, bruise, weaken, destroy”), from in (“in”) + frangere (“to break”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.
  2. verb To hinder; to destroy; as, to infringe efficacy; to infringe delight or power. [Obs.] Hooker.
  3. verb To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend.
  4. verb To encroach; to trespass; --followed by on or upon; as, to infringe upon the rights of another.

Etymology [L. infringere; pref. in- in + frangere to break. See Fraction, and cf. Infract .]

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

Sanskrit

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