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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accuse

UK /əˈkjuːz/ · US /əˈkjuz/ verb, noun

Forms accuses accusing accused accusest accusedst accuseth

  1. verb (transitive) To find fault with, blame, censure.
  2. verb (transitive, law, followed by "of") To charge with having committed a crime or offence. “For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To make an accusation against someone.
  4. noun (obsolete) Accusation.

Synonyms

denounce fault put the blame on atwite blame bumble challenge cop out decry defame finger inculpate lay at someone's door lay on lay something at the feet of patronize point the bone put it to shend twit impeach incriminate criminate charge

Etymology

First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray and Old English sċyldan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Accusation. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. verb To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law)
  3. verb to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; - -with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

Etymology [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. Cause.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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