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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overturn

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)n/ verb, noun

Forms overturns overturning overturned

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
  2. verb (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
  3. verb (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
  4. verb (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
  5. verb (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
  6. noun A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
  7. noun The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.

Synonyms

tip over upset turnover turn over tump over knock over bowl over overrule override overthrow reverse subvert bring down revoke annul lift countermand repeal rescind vacate revolutionize revolutionise

Etymology

From Middle English overturnen, equivalent to over- + turn. Compare also Middle English overterven (“to overturn”), see terve.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
  2. verb To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
  3. noun The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

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

Sanskrit

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