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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distress

/dɪˈstɹɛs/ noun, verb

Forms distresses distressing distressed

  1. noun Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
  2. noun A cause of such discomfort.
  3. noun Serious danger. “a ship in distress”
  4. noun (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
  5. noun (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
  6. noun (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
  7. verb To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
  8. verb (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
  9. verb To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. “a pair of distressed jeans”

Synonyms

anguish torment hardship sorrow affliction aggrievance grief grievance misery ruth sadness undelight vexation woe wrong jeopardy peril adventure danger harm's way hurt suffering distraint straiten

Antonyms

eustress calmness pleasure

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”).
The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
  2. noun That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
  3. verb To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
  4. verb To compel by pain or suffering.

Etymology [OE. destresse, distresse, OF. destresse, destrece, F. détresse, OF. destrecier to distress, (assumed) LL. districtiare, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere. See Distrain, and cf. Stress.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. destrecier. See Distress, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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