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

“increaseth” is a form of

increase

/ɪnˈkɹiːs/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms increases increasing increased encrease

  1. verb (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten. “His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money.”
  2. verb (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
  3. verb To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
  4. verb (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax. “The Moon increases.”
  5. noun An amount by which a quantity is increased. “An increase of about 30% in hits on the website.”
  6. noun For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
  7. noun Offspring, progeny.
  8. noun (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
  9. proper noun (historical, used by Puritans) A male given name.

Synonyms

increment proliferate propagate teem wax go up grow soar shoot up greaten raise up accelerate accrue aggrandize augment embiggen enhance enlarge heighten addition gain growth step-up

Antonyms

decrease drop fall go down plummet plunge reduce shrink sink cut decrement lower

Etymology

From Middle English encresen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“to increase”), from in (“in, on”) + crescō (“grow”).
The noun is from Middle English encres, from the verb.

Calque of Hebrew יוֹסֵף. From increase.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; --opposed to decrease.
  2. verb To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
  3. verb To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
  4. noun Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.

Etymology [OE. incresen, encresen, enrescen, OF. encreistre, fr. L. increscere; pref. in- in + crescere to grow. See Crescent, and cf. Decrease.]

Etymology [OE. encres, encresse. See Increase, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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