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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soak

UK /səʊk/ · US /soʊk/ verb, noun

Forms soaks soaking soaked

  1. verb (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. “I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.”
  2. verb (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. “Soak the beans overnight before cooking.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation. “The water soaked into my shoes and gave me wet feet.”
  4. verb (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up) “A sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.”
  5. verb (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
  6. verb (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
  7. verb (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
  8. verb (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time. “We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.”
  9. verb (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
  10. noun An immersion in water etc. “After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.”
  11. noun (slang, UK) A drunkard.
  12. noun (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
  13. noun (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

Synonyms

imbue fleece alcoholic souse suck-pint alco alkie bacchanal bacchant barfly bibber booze artist boozehound boozer borachio bouser carouser cupster dipso dipsomaniac soakage soaking overcharge surcharge gazump plume pluck rob hook drench

Etymology

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
  2. verb To drench; to wet thoroughly.
  3. verb To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
  4. verb To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.

Etymology [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr. s, s, to suck. See Suck.]

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

Sanskrit

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