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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retort

UK /ɹɪˈtɔːt/ · US /ɹɪˈtɔɹt/ noun, verb

Forms retorts retorting retorted

  1. noun A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback. “He countered her insult with a clever retort.”
  2. verb To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
  3. verb To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility. “to retort the charge of vanity”
  4. verb To bend or curve back. “a retorted line”
  5. verb To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
  6. noun (chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
  7. noun An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
  8. noun A pressure cooker.
  9. noun A crematory furnace.
  10. verb (transitive) To heat in a retort.

Synonyms

comeback rejoinder back answer return riposte replication counter come back repay rejoin

Etymology

From Middle English retorte, from Latin retortus, from retorquēre (“to be forced to twist back”).

From French retorte.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
  2. verb To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
  3. verb To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
  4. noun The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

Etymology [L. retortus, p. p. of retorquere; pref. re- re- + torquere to turn twist. See Torsion, and cf. Retort, n., 2.]

Etymology [See Retort, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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