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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mortify

UK /ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/ · US /ˈmoɹtɪfaɪ/ verb

Forms mortifies mortifying mortified

  1. verb (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. “Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.”
  2. verb (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate. “I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.”
  3. verb (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
  4. verb (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  5. verb (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin. “He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.”
  6. verb (transitive) To scare. “Please don't mortify your mother by telling her what a stupidly dangerous thing you did last night.”
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To humble; to depress.
  8. verb (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

Synonyms

macerate demean humiliate shame dispose of terminate annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bump off bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush dash deactivate subdue crucify chagrin humble abase necrose gangrene sphacelate

Antonyms

dignify honor

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
  2. verb To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  3. verb To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
  4. verb To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

Etymology [OE. mortifien, F. mortifier, fr. L. mortificare; L. mors, mortis, death + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Mortal, and -fy.]

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

Sanskrit

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