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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impale

/ɪmˈpeɪl/ verb

Forms impales impaling impaled empale

  1. verb (transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
  2. verb (transitive, heraldry) To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
  4. verb (ambitransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.

Synonyms

fix stake stick run through transfix pale palisade picket empierce pierce prick puncture transpierce empale spike

Etymology

From Middle French, from Medieval Latin impālāre, from Latin palus, whence also pale.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
  2. verb To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.

Etymology [See 2d Empale.]

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

Sanskrit

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