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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overwork

UK /ˌəʊvəˈwɜːk/ · US /ˌoʊvɚˈwɝk/ verb, noun

Forms overworks overworking overworked overwrought

  1. verb (transitive) To make (someone or something) work too hard. “to overwork a horse”
  2. verb (intransitive) To work too hard.
  3. verb (transitive) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labour.
  4. verb (transitive) To decorate all over.
  5. noun A superstructure.
  6. noun Excessive work.

Synonyms

overworking exploit

Etymology

From Middle English overwerken, possibly from Old English oferwyrċan (“to overwork, overlay”), equivalent to over- + work. Cognate with Dutch overwerken (“to overwork”).

From Middle English overwerc, from Old English oferweorc, oferġeweorc (“an overwork, superstructure, tomb”), equivalent to over- + work.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
  2. verb To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
  3. verb To work too much, or beyond one's strength.
  4. noun Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

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

Sanskrit

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