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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rase

/ɹeɪz/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of race raze

Forms rases rasing rased rasest rasedst raseth

  1. verb (intransitive, archaic) To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
  2. verb (transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
  4. verb (transitive, also figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
  5. verb (transitive, archaic except UK, regional) To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
  6. verb To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
  7. verb To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.
  8. verb To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
  9. verb To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.
  10. noun An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
  11. noun (obsolete, rare) A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.
  12. verb (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.
  13. proper noun A minor river in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Ancholme; in full, the River Rase.

Synonyms

level raze dismantle tear down take down pull down

Etymology

From Late Middle English rasen, rasyn (“to rage; to enrage (?)”), probably from Middle Dutch râsen, râzen (“to be extremely angry, rage; to be mad, rave; to talk nonsense; of a dog: to be rabid”), from Old Dutch *rāson (modern Dutch razen), from Proto-West Germanic *rāsōn (“to rush”), Proto-Germanic *rēsōną (“to rush”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow; to rush”).
* Swedish rasa (“rage”)

A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze.

* from Late Latin rāsum (neuter), rāsa (“level measure of grain”, feminine), a noun use of Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”, masculine), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape; to scratch; to shave; to touch upon, graze”), from Proto-Italic *razdō, further etymology unknown; or
* from Anglo-Norman rase (“level measure of grain”), from Latin rāsus (see above).

From rase, race (“(usually white) marking on the head of an animal, chiefly a horse”); further etymology uncertain, possibly a specific use of race (“(obsolete) mark; cut, scratch”, noun), from race (“to cut, slash; to scratch; to tear”) (southwest England), a variant of raze.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To rub along the surface of; to graze.[Obsoles.]
  2. verb To rub or scratch out; to erase. [Obsoles.]
  3. verb To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
  4. noun A scratching out, or erasure. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. raser, LL. rasare to scrape often, v. freq. fr. L. radere, rasum, to scrape, shave; cf. Skr. rad to scratch, gnaw, L. rodere to gnaw. Cf. Raze, Razee, Razor, Rodent.]

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