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

“infusing” is a form of

infuse

/ɪnˈfjuz/ verb

Forms infuses infusing infused

  1. verb (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
  2. verb (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
  3. verb (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
  4. verb (transitive) To instill as a quality.
  5. verb (intransitive) To undergo infusion. “Let it infuse for five minutes.”
  6. verb (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

Synonyms

breathe inculcate instill impregnate tincture steep

Etymology

From Middle English infusen, from Latin infusus, from infundo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
  2. verb To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.
  3. noun Infusion. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [L. infusus, p.p. of infundere to pour in or into; pref. in- in + fundere to pour: cf. F. infuser. See Found to cast.]

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

Sanskrit

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