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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drown

/dɹaʊn/ verb, proper noun

Forms drowns drowning drowned

  1. verb (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. “When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.”
  2. verb (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. “The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. “We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.”
  4. verb (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. “He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.”
  5. verb (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items. “The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.”
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

drench noyade flood inundate submerge overwhelm swim

Etymology

From Middle English drownen, drounen, drunen (“to drown”), of obscure and uncertain origin.
The OED suggests an unattested Old English form *drūnian. Harper 2001 points to Old English druncnian, ġedruncnian (> Middle English drunknen, dronknen (“to drown”)), "probably influenced" by Old Norse drukkna (cf. Icelandic drukkna, Danish drukne (“to drown”)). Funk & Wagnall's has 'of uncertain origin'. It has been theorised (see e.g. ODS) that it may represent a direct loan of Old Norse drukkna, but this is described by the OED as being "on phonetic and other grounds [...] highly improbable", unless one considers the possibility of an unattested variant in Old Norse *drunkna.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
  2. verb To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." Dryden.
  3. verb To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

Etymology [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]

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

Sanskrit

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