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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shrink

/ˈʃɹɪŋk/ verb, noun

Forms shrinks shrinking shrank shrunk shrunken

  1. verb (transitive) To cause to become smaller. “The dryer shrank my sweater.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract. “This garment will shrink when wet.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To cower or flinch. “Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.”
  4. verb (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
  5. verb (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
  6. verb (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
  7. noun Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
  8. noun (slang, sometimes derogatory) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist. “You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.”
  9. noun (uncountable, business) Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.

Synonyms

funk shirk shrink back retreat flinch head-shrinker shrinker psychiatrist shrivel shrivel up wither squinch cringe wince recoil quail reduce contract

Antonyms

expand grow enlarge stretch

Etymology

From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”).
The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
  2. verb To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
  3. verb To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
  4. verb To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp.]

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

Sanskrit

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