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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destroy

/dɪˈstɹɔɪ/ verb

Forms destroys destroying destroyed

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist. “The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.”
  2. verb (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition. “Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate.”
  3. verb (transitive) To put down or euthanize. “Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.”
  4. verb (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin. “Her divorce destroyed her; she had a nervous breakdown and was severely depressed for more than a year.”
  5. verb (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush. “Remember when Germany destroyed Brazil 7–1 in the World Cup?”
  6. verb (transitive, computing) To remove data. “The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.”
  7. verb (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up. “This exercise is going to destroy all parts of your shoulders.”
  8. verb (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. “She got destroyed by her lover on the carpet.”

Synonyms

annihilate break demolish kill ruin waste aerosolize atomize benothing bewreck blot out blotto dash decompose desolate devastate diffuse disintegrate disperse dissolve destruct put down

Antonyms

build construct create make raise repair produce rebuild recover

Etymology

From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrugō, from Classical Latin dēstruō, from dē- (“un-, de-”) + struō (“to build”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
  2. verb To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.

Etymology [OE. destroien, destruien, destrien, OF. destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to pile up, build. See Structure.]

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

Sanskrit

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