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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overreach

UK /ˌəʊvəˈɹiːt͡ʃ/ · US /ˌoʊvə(ɹ)ˈɹit͡ʃ/ verb, noun

Forms overreaches overreaching overreached overraught

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
  2. verb (transitive, property law) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (UK, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
  3. verb (ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
  4. verb (ambitransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.
  5. verb (ambitransitive, now rare) To deceive, to swindle.
  6. verb (intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
  7. verb (transitive, archaic) To get the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit.
  8. noun (also figuratively) An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.
  9. noun (equestrianism) Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action.

Synonyms

exceed excel forpass go beyond breach cap outreach outcompass outstep outstrip overgo overpass overstep overstride surpass transgress transcend trespass cheat defraud outwit outsmart outfox beat circumvent

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- + reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To reach above or beyond in any direction.
  2. verb To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat. Shak.
  3. verb To reach too far; as: (a) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; --said of horses.
  4. verb To cheat by cunning or deception.

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

Sanskrit

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