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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thicken

/ˈθɪkən/ verb

Forms thickens thickening thickened

  1. verb (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
  2. verb (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous). “to thicken a sauce”
  3. verb (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
  4. verb (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
  5. verb (transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
  6. verb (transitive) To make more frequent. “to thicken blows”
  7. verb (academic) To make more detailed or comprehensive.

Synonyms

broaden inspissate build up enwiden engross reinforce incrassate reduce thick condense widen

Antonyms

dilute thin water down

Etymology

From Middle English thickenen, thikkenen, perhaps from Old Norse þykkna (“to thicken”); equivalent to thick + -en. Cognate with Swedish tjockna (“to thicken”), Icelandic þykkna (“to thicken”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: -- (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
  2. verb To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak.

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

Sanskrit

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