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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“bloated” is a form of

bloat

UK /bləʊt/ · US /bloʊt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms bloats bloating bloated

  1. verb To cause to become distended.
  2. verb (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
  3. verb To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
  4. verb (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
  5. verb To fill with vanity or conceit.
  6. verb (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking. “bloated herring”
  7. verb To increase to an excessive amount.
  8. noun Distention of the abdomen from death.
  9. noun (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
  10. noun (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources. “Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.”
  11. noun (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
  12. noun (collective) A group of hippopotamuses.
  13. adjective (obsolete) bloated.

Synonyms

ruminal tympany

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
  2. verb To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. Dryden.
  3. verb To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell. Arbuthnot.
  4. adjective Bloated. [R.] Shak.

Etymology [Cf. Icel. blotna to become soft, blautr soft, wet, Sw. blöt soft, blöta to soak; akin to G. bloss bare, and AS. bleát wretched; or perh. fr. root of Eng. 5th blow. Cf. Blote.]

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