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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blush

/ˈblʌʃ/ noun, verb

Forms blushes blushing blushed

  1. noun An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
  2. noun A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
  3. noun (figuratively) A feeling or appearance of optimism.
  4. noun (uncountable, countable, cosmetics) A cosmetic, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks and lips.
  5. noun A color between pink and cream.
  6. verb (intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment. “The love scene made him blush to the roots of his hair / to the tips of his ears.”
  7. verb (intransitive, figuratively) To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).
  8. verb (intransitive) To become red or pink.
  9. verb (transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.
  10. verb (copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade). “When he saw it, he blushed a beet red.”
  11. verb (transitive) To express or make known by blushing. “Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.”
  12. verb (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers. “The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color.”
  13. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
  14. noun The collective noun for a group of boys. “a blush of boys”

Synonyms

color blusher rouge flush crimson pinken redden bloom rosiness

Etymology

From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to be red; shine”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.
Cognate with Middle Low German blöschen (“to blush”). Compare also Old English blysian (“to burn; blaze”), Dutch blozen (“to blush”), Danish blusse (“to blush”), Old Norse blys (“torch”), Danish blus (“blaze”).

Unknown; attested in the late 15th century.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.]
  2. verb To express or make known by blushing.
  3. noun A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
  4. noun A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

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

Sanskrit

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