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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reclaim

/ɹɪˈkleɪm/ verb, noun

Forms reclaims reclaiming reclaimed

  1. verb (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  2. verb (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  3. verb (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
  4. verb (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
  5. verb (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  6. verb (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  7. verb (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  8. verb (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
  9. noun (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
  10. noun (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
  11. noun An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
  12. noun Material recovered from something that has already been used. “Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?”

Synonyms

repossess recover reform regenerate rectify domesticate domesticize domesticise tame

Etymology

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.
  2. verb To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. Chaucer.
  3. verb To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  4. verb To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

Etymology [F. réclamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim.]

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