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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macerate

/ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/ verb, noun

Forms macerates macerating macerated

  1. verb To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by (or as if by) soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
  2. verb To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
  3. verb (archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
  4. verb (obsolete) To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.
  5. verb (obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.
  6. noun A macerated substance.

Synonyms

comminute crush pulverize waste emaciate

Etymology

First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”), whence make. Cognate with French macérer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make lean; to cause to waste away. [Obs. or R.] Harvey.
  2. verb To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.

Etymology [L. maceratus, p. p. of macerare to make soft, weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. 1. To make lean; to cause to waste away. [Obs. or R.]

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

Sanskrit

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