Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

sodomise

/ˈsɒdəmaɪz/ verb

Forms sodomises sodomising sodomised sodomize

verb (transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
verb (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
verb (intransitive) To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
verb (transitive, figurative) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
verb (transitive, obsolete) To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.
verb (transitive, obsolete) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).

Synonyms

From sodomy + -ise.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “sodomise”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details