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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“fuming” is a form of

fume

/fjuːm/ noun, verb

Forms fumes fuming fumed

  1. noun A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. “Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.”
  2. noun A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. “Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.”
  3. noun Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
  4. noun Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  5. noun The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  6. noun (obsolete) A passionate person.
  7. verb (transitive) To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
  8. verb (transitive) To apply or offer incense to.
  9. verb (intransitive) To emit fumes.
  10. verb (intransitive) To pass off in fumes or vapours.
  11. verb (intransitive or reporting verb, figuratively) To express or feel great anger. “He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.”
  12. verb (intransitive, figuratively) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

Synonyms

effluvium smoke fumigate reek

Etymology

From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
  2. noun Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. South.
  3. verb To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
  4. verb To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

Etymology [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh smoke, dh to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. fum smoke, F. fumée. Cf. Dust, n., Femerell, Thyme.]

Etymology [Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See Fume, n.]

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