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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ulcerate

adjective, verb

Forms ulcerates ulcerating ulcerated

  1. adjective (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.
  2. verb (medicine, transitive) To cause an ulcer to develop. “The surface was ulcerated by trauma.”
  3. verb (medicine, intransitive) To become ulcerous. “The tissue ulcerated shortly after exposure.”

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ulcerātus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
  2. verb To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers. Harvey.

Etymology [L. ulceratus, p. p. of ulcerare, fr. ulcus ulcer.]

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

Sanskrit

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