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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sterilize

/ˈstɛɹɪlaɪz/ verb

Forms sterilizes sterilizing sterilized sterilise

  1. verb (transitive) To deprive of the ability to procreate.
  2. verb (transitive) To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
  3. verb (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
  4. verb (transitive, astronomy) To render a planet like Earth permanently uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, causing their complete extinction.
  5. verb (transitive) To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.

Synonyms

sterilise desex unsex desexualize desexualise fix

Etymology

Cf. F. stériliser.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward.
  2. verb (a) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

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