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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turgid

UK /ˈtɜːd͡ʒɪd/ · US /ˈtɚ.d͡ʒɪd/ adjective

  1. adjective Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. “I have a turgid limb.”
  2. adjective Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
  3. adjective (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

Synonyms

bloated distended inflated swelled swollen tumescent tumid turgescent boln bulging bulled extuberant farced nodose puffed protuberant bombastic grandiose pompous declamatory large orotund puffy intumescent

Etymology

From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; --especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
  2. adjective Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.

Etymology [L. turgidus, from turgere to swell.]

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

Sanskrit

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