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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

“grabbed” is a form of

grab

/ˈɡɹæb/ verb, noun

Forms grabs grabbing grabbed ghorab ghrab ghurab gurab

  1. verb (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. “I grabbed her hand to pull her back from the cliff edge.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something). “The suspect suddenly broke free and grabbed at the policeman's gun.”
  3. verb To restrain someone; to arrest.
  4. verb (transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest. “How does that idea grab you?”
  5. verb (informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take. “Come in and grab a seat [i.e. sit down].”
  6. verb (informal) To consume something quickly. “We'll just grab a sandwich and then we'll be on our way.”
  7. verb To take the opportunity of.
  8. noun (countable) A sudden snatch at something.
  9. noun (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
  10. noun (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
  11. noun A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
  12. noun (countable, media) A sound bite.
  13. noun (obsolete) That which is seized.
  14. noun (firefighting, slang) The rescue of a person from a burning structure.
  15. noun (uncountable) A simple card game.
  16. noun A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
  17. noun (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app. “I will take a Grab back home. ("I will book a taxi ride from Grab to return home.")”

Synonyms

catch clutch grasp seize snatch snap take hold of snap up snaffle

Etymology

From Middle Dutch grabben or Middle Low German grabben (“to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”), from Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *grabbōn, a secondary form of Proto-Germanic *grabōną (“to gather, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to gather, rake, grab, seize”).
Related to archaic German grappen (“to grab”), Danish grabbe (“to grab”), Swedish grabba (“to grab”), Old Norse grápa (“to seize, appropriate”), Middle English grappen (“to feel, grope, grasp, clutch”), Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”).
Related also to Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇā́ti), गृभ्णाति (gṛbhṇā́ti, “he seizes”), Avestan 𐬔𐬭𐬀𐬠 (grab, “to seize”)), Macedonian грабне (grabne, “to snatch”), Bulgarian грабя (grabja, “to rob, to grab”).

From Arabic غُرَاب (ḡurāb) and Hindi ghurb?: crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship.

From Grab, a Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments; the company name is from the word grab.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
  2. verb To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
  3. noun A sudden grasp or seizure.
  4. noun An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; --specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

Etymology [Ar. & Hind. ghur crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship.]

Etymology [Akin to Sw. grabba to grasp. Cf. Grabble, Grapple, Grasp.]

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