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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destitute

/ˈdɛstɪtuːt/ adjective, verb

Forms destitutes destituting destituted

  1. adjective (followed by the preposition "of") Lacking something; devoid.
  2. adjective Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
  3. verb (transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

Synonyms

barren empty void beggared impecunious skint almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate dirt poor disadvantaged down and out down at heel impoverished indigent necessitous needy poverty-stricken devoid free innocent

Etymology

From Middle English destitute, destitut, from Latin dēstitūtus.

From Middle English destituten, from the adjective (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; --often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8.
  2. adjective Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
  3. verb To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.]
  4. verb To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; --followed by of. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. destitutus, p. p. of destituere to set away, leave alone, forsake; de + statuere to set. See Statute.]

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

Sanskrit

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