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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disperse

UK /dɪˈspɜːs/ · US /dɪˈspɝs/ verb, adjective

Forms disperses dispersing dispersed

  1. verb (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions. “The Jews are dispersed among all nations.”
  2. verb (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
  3. verb (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
  4. verb (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
  5. verb (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
  6. adjective Scattered or spread out.

Synonyms

destroy annihilate aerosolize atomize benothing bewreck blot out blotto dash decompose demolish desolate devastate diffuse disintegrate dissolve eliminate eradicate erase exterminate scatter sprinkle dot dust dissipate dispel break up spread out circulate circularize

Antonyms

assemble collect round up

Etymology

From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
  2. verb To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.
  3. verb To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.
  4. verb To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.

Etymology [L. dispersus, p. p. of dispergere to strew, scatter. See Sparse.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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