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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wearing

/ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Also a form of wear

Forms wearings

  1. adjective (not comparable) Intended to be worn. “Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.”
  2. adjective Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.
  3. adjective Causing erosion.
  4. adjective That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.
  5. noun The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
  6. noun The act by which something is worn.
  7. noun That which is worn; clothes; garments.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

draining tiresome exhausting exhaustive fatiguing grueling tiring weariful wearisome weary erosion eroding eating away wearing away wear wearying

Etymology

Variant of Waring.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
  2. noun That which is worn; clothes; garments. [Obs.]
  3. adjective Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.

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

Sanskrit

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

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