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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sustain

/səˈsteɪn/ verb, noun

Forms sustains sustaining sustained

  1. verb (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence. “The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.”
  2. verb (transitive) To provide for or nourish. “provisions to sustain an army”
  3. verb (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something).
  4. verb (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.). “The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.”
  5. verb (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold. “to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition”
  6. verb (law, of a judge) To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
  7. verb To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support. “A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.”
  8. verb To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
  9. noun (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

Synonyms

hold prolong keep up suffer have get nourish nurture keep maintain support hold up confirm corroborate substantiate affirm

Antonyms

overrule

Etymology

From Middle English susteinen, sustenen, from Old French sustenir (French soutenir), from Latin sustineō, sustinēre (“to uphold”), from sub- (“from below, up”) + teneō (“hold”, verb).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
  2. verb Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.
  3. noun One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

Etymology [OE. sustenen, susteinen, OF. sustenir, sostenir, F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- (see Sub-) + tenere to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Sustenance.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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