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

“imbued” is a form of

imbue

UK /ɪmˈbjuː/ · US /ɪmˈbju/ verb

Forms imbues imbuing imbued

  1. verb (transitive) To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
  2. verb (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. “The shirt was imbued with his scent.”
  3. verb In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. “The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.”

Synonyms

endue infuse pervade steep suffuse tincture permeate penetrate interpenetrate diffuse riddle soak hue

Etymology

From Latin imbuō (“wet, moisten”). Compare imbibe.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.
  2. verb To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

Etymology [L. imbuere; pref. im- in + perh. a disused simple word akin to L. bibere to drink. Cf. Imbibe.]

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

Sanskrit

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