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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

purging

noun

Also a form of purge

Forms purgings

  1. noun (chiefly politics) A removal of undesirable people.
  2. noun (chiefly chemistry) The cleansing of a device by flushing it with water, steam, or some other liquid or gas.
  3. noun (premodern medicine) The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomiting, etc.
  4. noun (medicine) The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
  5. noun (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
  6. noun (obsolete and rare) That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
  7. noun (obsolete and rare) Synonym of purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.
  8. noun (dermatology) The process in which acne temporarily worsened due to the introduction of skincare products that increase cell turnover, bringing underlying acne to the surface more quickly.

Synonyms

purge witchhunt defecation vomiting and Thesaurus:regurgitate purgation blood sin vomit and Thesaurus:feces purgatorial purifying

Etymology

From Middle English purgynge; equivalent to purge + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective That purges; cleansing. Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; --so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
  2. noun The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.

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

Sanskrit

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

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