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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“denouncing” is a form of

denounce

/diˈnaʊns/ verb

Forms denounces denouncing denounced

  1. verb (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
  2. verb (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
  3. verb (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse. “to denounce a confederate in crime”
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of. “to denounce war; to denounce punishment”
  5. verb (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
  6. verb (US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

Synonyms

herald make known promulgate report sound attack charge condemn criticize damn decry discredit inveigh against proscribe accuse atwite blame bumble challenge cop out stigmatize stigmatise brand mark tell on betray give away rat grass shit

Etymology

From Old French denuncier, from Latin dēnūntiō (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + nūntiō (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from nūntius (“messenger, message”). Doublet of denunciate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [Obs.]
  2. verb To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

Etymology [F. dénoncer, OF. denoncier, fr. L. denuntiare, denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a messenger, message. See Nuncio, and cf. Denunciate.]

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

Sanskrit

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