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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compel

/kəmˈpɛl/ verb

Forms compels compelling compelled

  1. verb (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up. “The shepherds compelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall.”
  2. verb (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
  3. verb (transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce. “Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.”
  4. verb (transitive) To forcefully or powerfully motivate (a course of action).
  5. verb (transitive) To have a strong, irresistible force (on someone or something).
  6. verb (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
  7. verb (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
  8. verb (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

Synonyms

necessitate oblige obligate

Etymology

From Middle English compellen, borrowed from Middle French compellir, from Latin compellere, itself from com- (“together”) + pellere (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English nīedan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
  2. verb To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. [R.]
  3. verb To make one yield or submit. "If she can not entreat, I can not compel." Shak.

Etymology [L. compellere, compilstum, to drive together, to compel, urge; com- + pellere to drive: cf. OF. compellir. See Pulse.]

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

Sanskrit

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