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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exhale

/ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/ verb, noun

Forms exhales exhaling exhaled

  1. verb (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
  2. verb (transitive) To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
  3. verb (intransitive) To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
  4. verb (transitive) To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.). “The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.”
  5. verb (transitive) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour. “The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.”
  6. noun An exhalation.

Synonyms

outbreathe breathe out expire emanate emit expel give forth

Antonyms

inbreathe breathe in inhale inspire

Etymology

From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
  2. verb To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.
  3. verb To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

Etymology [L. exhalare; ex out + halare to breathe; cf.F. exhaler. Cf. Inhale.]

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

Sanskrit

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