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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wrestle

UK /ˈɹɛsl̩/ · US /ˈɹɛs(ə)l/ verb, noun

Forms wrestles wrestling wrestled wrestlest wrestledst wrestleth rassle wrassle wrastle wrostle

  1. verb To take part in (a wrestling bout or match).
  2. verb Sometimes followed by down: to contend with or move (someone) into or out of a position by grappling; also, to overcome (someone) by grappling.
  3. verb To move or manipulate (something) using physical effort, usually with some difficulty or opposition. “I couldn't wrestle the trunk down the hall.”
  4. verb (figurative) To engage in (a contest or struggle).
  5. verb (Western US) To throw down (a calf or other livestock animal) for branding.
  6. verb To grapple or otherwise contend with an opponent in order to throw or force them to the ground, chiefly as a sport or in unarmed combat.
  7. verb Followed by with: to move or manipulate something using physical effort, usually with some difficulty or opposition.
  8. verb To make one's way or move with some difficulty or effort.
  9. noun A fight or struggle between people during which they grapple or otherwise contend with each other in order to throw or force their opponent to the ground, chiefly as a sport or in unarmed combat.
  10. noun (figurative) A situation in which people compete with each other; a contest, a struggle.
  11. noun (uncountable, also figurative) The action of contending or struggling.

Synonyms

wraxle wrestling grapple grappling hand-to-hand struggle writhe wriggle worm squirm twist

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English wrestlen, wrastlen (“to engage in grappling combat or sport, struggle, wrestle; to twist and turn, squirm, wriggle, writhe; (figurative) to contend, grapple with, struggle”), from Old English wrǣstlian (“to wrestle”), a frequentative form of wrǣstan (“to twist, wrest”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną (“to turn; to twist, wrest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”). By surface analysis, wrest + -le (frequentative suffix). Probably related to wraxle (UK, dialectal, archaic).
The noun is derived from the verb.
* Middle Dutch worstelen, wrastelen (“to wrestle”) (modern Dutch worstelen)
* Middle Low German wrostelen (“to wrestle”) (German Low German frösseln, wrösseln)
* Saterland Frisian wrosselje (“to contend, wrestle”)
* West Frisian wrakselje (“to wrestle”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
  2. verb Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
  3. verb To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
  4. noun A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

Etymology [OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. wr, freq. of wr to wrest; akin to OD. wrastelen to wrestle. See Wrest, v. t.]

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