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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surfeit

UK /ˈsɜː.fɪt/ · US /ˈsɝː.fɪt/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms surfeits surfeiting surfeited

  1. adjective (archaic) Sated; surfeited; filled.
  2. noun (countable) An excessive amount of something. “A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.”
  3. noun (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
  4. noun (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence. “King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.”
  5. noun Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  6. noun (countable) A group of skunks.
  7. verb (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
  8. verb (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something). “She surfeited her children on sweets.”
  9. verb (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
  10. verb (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
  11. verb (transitive, sometimes figurative) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess.
  12. verb (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
  13. verb (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
  14. verb (intransitive, reflexive, sometimes figurative) To become sick from overindulgence.

Synonyms

excess glut overabundance superfluity surplus ug gluttony overeating overindulgence nausea stuff overfeed cloy indulge overindulge oversupply repletion

Etymology

From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”). The adjective is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Excess in eating and drinking.
  2. noun Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
  3. verb To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
  4. verb To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

Etymology [OE. surfet, OF. surfait, sorfait, excess, arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See Sur-, and Fact.]

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