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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scorch

UK /skɔːtʃ/ · US /skɔɹt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms scorches scorching scorched

  1. noun A slight or surface burn.
  2. noun A discolouration caused by heat.
  3. noun (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
  4. verb (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
  5. verb (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
  6. verb (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
  7. verb (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
  8. verb To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
  9. verb (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
  10. verb (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

Synonyms

singe sear char blacken

Etymology

From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
  2. verb To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
  3. verb To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.
  4. verb To burn or be burnt.

Etymology [OE. scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skrökka, to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skråkkla to wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF. escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F. écorcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis, bark (cf. Cork); because the skin falls off when scorched.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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