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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relapse

/ɹɪˈlæps/ verb, noun

Forms relapses relapsing relapsed

  1. verb (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice. “He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion.”
  2. verb (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
  3. verb (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence. “relapsed after 5 months of being clean”
  4. verb To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
  5. noun The act or situation of relapsing. “a drug relapse”
  6. noun (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
  7. noun (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

Synonyms

backsliding lapse lapsing relapsing reversion reverting get worse recidivate regress retrogress fall back

Etymology

From Latin relapsus, past participle of relabi (“to slide back, fall back”), from re- (“back”) + labi (“to slip, slide, fall”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back. [Obs.]
  2. verb To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; --generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relaps into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; --sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
  3. noun A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
  4. noun One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backlider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.

Etymology [L.relapsus, p. p. of relabi to slip back, to relapse; pref. re- re- + labi to fall, slip, slide. See Lapse.]

Etymology [For sense 2 cf. F. relaps. See Relapse, v.]

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