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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appall

/əˈpɔːl/ verb

Forms appalls appalling appalled appal

  1. verb (transitive) To fill with horror or indignation; to dismay. “The evidence put forth at the court appalled most of the jury.”
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength
  4. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
  5. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavor or to become stale.

Synonyms

terrify daunt frighten scare depress affright alarm dismay fray grill give someone the shits harrow horrify make someone's blood run cold mortify petrify scare straight scare the bejeebers out of scare the hell out of scare the pants off of shock offend scandalize scandalise appal outrage

Etymology

From Middle English apallen, from Old French apalir (“to grow pale, make pale”); a (Latin ad) + palir (“to grow pale, to make pale”), pâle (“pale”), from pallere. See pale (adj.) and compare with pall.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make pale; to blanch. [Obs.]
  2. verb To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight.
  3. verb To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
  4. verb To lose flavor or become stale. [Obs.]

Etymology [OF. appalir to grow pale, make pale; a (L. ad) + pâlir to grow pale, to make pale, pâle pale. See Pale, a., and cf. Pall.]

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