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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beset

UK /bɪˈsɛt/ · US /bəˈsɛt/ verb

Forms besets besetting besettest besetst besetteth

  1. verb (literal or figurative) To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about.
  2. verb To occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing.
  3. verb (chiefly passive voice) To decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc.
  4. verb (archaic) Followed by with: to encircle or surround (someone or something); to hem in.
  5. verb (nautical, chiefly passive voice) To trap (a ship) within frozen sea; to ice in.
  6. verb (figurative) Of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something); to trouble.
  7. verb (often military, archaic) Of soldiers, etc.: to surround (a place) to compel surrender; to besiege.
  8. verb (obsolete) To capture (an animal); to ensnare, to entrap.

Synonyms

beleaguer badger bait bedevil persecute dog bullyrag besiege bug devil chevy give someone grief harass harry hound pester pick at plague vex bedazzle hassle chivy chivvy chevvy molest provoke set upon encrust incrust

Antonyms

unbeset

Etymology

From Middle English besetten, bisetten (“to besiege, blockade; to fill, occupy; to harass, beset; to allot, bestow; to arrange, manage; to place, set; to provide for; to treat in a certain way”), from Old English besettan, bisettan (“to surround, beset; to set near; etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisattjan, from Proto-Germanic *bisatjaną (“to fill, occupy”), from *bi- (prefix meaning ‘at; by’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at; near; on”)) + *satjaną (“to place down, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)). By surface analysis, be- (prefix meaning ‘around; by, close to, near, next to’) + set.
* Danish besætte (“to occupy; obsess”)
* Dutch bezetten (“to sit in; occupy; fill”)
* German besetzen (“to seize; occupy; garrison”)
* German Low German besetten (“to occupy”)
* Saterland Frisian besätte (“to occupy”)
* Swedish besätta (“to fill; occupy; beset”)
* West Frisian besette (“to occupy”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.
  2. verb To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton.

Etymology [AS. besettan (akin to OHG. bisazjan, G. besetzen, D. bezetten); pref. be- + settan to set. See Set.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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