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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revolt

UK /ɹɪˈvəʊlt/ · US /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/ verb, noun

Forms revolts revolting revolted revoltest revoltedst revolteth

  1. verb (intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority. “The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.”
  2. verb (transitive) To repel greatly. “Your brother revolts me!”
  3. verb (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at. “The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.”
  4. verb To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
  5. verb To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  6. verb (card games) to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
  7. noun An act of revolting. “— It's a revolt? — No, Sire, it's a revolution...”

Synonyms

armed revolt insurrection rebellion rising uprising disgust gross out repel nauseate sicken churn up

Antonyms

counterrevolt

Etymology

Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus).
Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  2. verb Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
  3. verb To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
  4. verb To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.

Etymology [Cf. F. révoller, It. rivoltare. See Revolt, n.]

Etymology [F. révolte, It. rivolta, fr. rivolto, p. p. fr. L. revolvere, revolutum. See Revolve.]

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