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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blocked

UK /blɒkt/ · US /blɑkt/ adjective

Also a form of block

  1. adjective Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded. “This road is blocked, so we must find another route.”
  2. adjective Unable to move owing to an obstruction. “The argument was over a blocked car in a driveway.”
  3. adjective (of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on. “Blocked users will be unable to access their accounts indefinitely.”
  4. adjective (of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access or from performing certain actions. “All of this user's accounts are now blocked.”
  5. adjective (Ireland, slang) Drunk.
  6. adjective (crosswording) With black squares separating the lights and marking the ends of words.

Synonyms

choked clogged forwrought impedite drunk out of use plugged

Antonyms

barred

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “blocked”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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