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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belie

/bɪˈlaɪ/ verb

Forms belies belying belay belain belied bely

  1. verb (transitive, dated) To lie around; encompass.
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
  3. verb (transitive, archaic) To tell lies about.
  4. verb (transitive) To give a false representation of. “Her smooth complexion and dark hair belie her actual age.”
  5. verb (transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false. “Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.”
  6. verb (transitive, rare) To call a liar; to accuse of falsehood.
  7. verb (transitive, rare) To fill with lies; to lie to.
  8. verb (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something). “His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.”
  9. verb (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince or demonstrate (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
  10. verb (obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.

Synonyms

slander calumniate misrepresent contradict give the lie to put the lie to give lie to put lie to put to lie negate

Etymology

From Middle English belyen, beliggen, from Old English beliċġan, biliċġan (“to lie around, surround, hedge in, encompass”), from Proto-West Germanic *biliggjan, from Proto-Germanic *biligjaną (“to lie around”). Equivalent to be- (“around, by”) + lie (“to be positioned”).

From Middle English belyen, beleoȝen, from Old English belēogan (“to deceive by lying, be mistaken”), from Proto-West Germanic *bileugan (“to belie”). Equivalent to be- (“about”) + lie (“to deceive”). Compare Dutch beliegen (“to lie about, tell lies”), German belügen (“to lie to someone”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
  2. verb To give a false representation or account of. Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts. Shak.

Etymology [OE. bilien, bili, AS. beleógan; pref. be- + leógan to lie. See Lie, n.]

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