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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revoke

UK /ɹɪˈvəʊk/ · US /ɹɪˈvoʊk/ verb, noun

Forms revokes revoking revoked

  1. verb (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. “Your driver's license will be revoked.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  3. verb (obsolete) To call or bring back.
  4. verb (obsolete) To hold back.
  5. verb (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
  6. verb (obsolete) To call back to mind.
  7. noun The act of revoking in a game of cards.
  8. noun A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
  9. noun A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.

Synonyms

recall repress restrain draw back withdraw recollect remember renege annul lift countermand reverse repeal overturn rescind vacate

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]
  2. verb Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like. Shak.
  3. verb To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.
  4. noun The act of revoking.

Etymology [F. révoquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate.]

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

Sanskrit

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