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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recover

UK /ɹɪˈkʌvə/ · US /ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/ verb, noun

Forms recovers recovering recovered recoverest recoveredst recovereth recovre re-cover

  1. verb (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal). “After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.”
  2. verb (transitive) To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person). “They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital.”
  3. verb (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body). “At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength.”
  4. verb (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit. “The plaintiff recovered in his suit, being awarded declaratory relief and a clearing of his name.”
  5. verb (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process. “to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a legal action or that is owing”
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
  7. verb (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
  8. verb (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of. “to recover lost time”
  9. noun (obsolete) Recovery.
  10. noun (military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
  11. noun (dated) The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery).
  12. verb To cover again.
  13. verb (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

Synonyms

recoup retrieve find regain recuperate convalesce go back reclaim

Etymology

From Middle English recoveren, rekeveren, from Anglo-Norman recoverer and Old French recovrer, from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre. Doublet of recuperate.
The noun is from Middle English recover, from the verb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  2. verb To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
  3. verb To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time. "Loss of catel may recovered be." Chaucer.
  4. verb To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; --often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.

Etymology [Pref. re- + cover: cf. F. recouvrir.]

Etymology [OE. recoveren, OF. recovrer, F. recouvrer, from L. recuperare; pref. re- re + a word of unknown origin. Cf.Recuperate.]

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

Sanskrit

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