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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repudiate

/ɹɪˈpjuː.di.eɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms repudiates repudiating repudiated

  1. verb (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
  2. verb (transitive) To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
  3. verb (transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
  4. verb (intransitive) To be repudiated.
  5. adjective (as a participle, of a woman) Repudiated by a husband, divorced.
  6. adjective (of a woman) Repudiated after betrothal or engagement.
  7. adjective (generally) Set aside, rejected.
  8. noun A divorced wife.

Synonyms

deny contradict gainsay refudiate disavow forswear welsh abjure disclaim disown forsay renounce wash one's hands of

Antonyms

requite accept own up

Etymology

First attested in 1543; from Latin repudiātus, the perfect passive participle of repudiō (“to cast off, reject”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from repudium (“rejection, repudiation, divorce”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
  2. verb To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.

Etymology [L. repudiatus, p. p. of repudiare to repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + pudere to be ashamed.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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