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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torture

UK /ˈtɔːt͡ʃə/ · US /ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms tortures torturing tortured

  1. noun The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish. “People confess to anything under torture.”
  2. noun (BDSM, in combination) Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner. “cock and ball torture”
  3. noun Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
  4. noun (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc. “Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!”
  5. verb (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them. “People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.”

Synonyms

enhanced interrogation techniques anguish rend difficulty distress grief hardship pain smart torment trouble misery wark enhanced interrogation excruciate afflict ache aggrieve agonize dere agony distortion overrefinement straining twisting torturing rack

Etymology

From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tortūra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Medieval Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquēre (“to twist”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak.
  2. noun Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
  3. verb To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
  4. verb To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. Shak.

Etymology [F.,fr.L. tortura, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, Extort, Retort, Tart, n., Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort, Trope.]

Etymology [Cf. F. Torturer.]

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

Sanskrit

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