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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pollute

/pəˈluːt/ verb, adjective

Forms pollutes polluting polluted

  1. verb (transitive) To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product. “The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.”
  2. verb (transitive) To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor. “The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.”
  3. verb To corrupt or profane
  4. verb To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
  5. verb (Nigeria, slang) to flatulate.
  6. adjective (rare) Polluted; defiled.

Synonyms

contaminate poison taint blight mar ruin ball up bumble botch bugger up bungle corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb foil fuck up jack up mess up foul

Etymology

From Middle English polluten, borrowed from Latin pollūtum, from pollūtus (“no longer virgin", "unchaste”), perfect passive participle of polluō (“soil", "defile", "dishonor”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; --used of physical or moral defilement.
  2. verb To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.
  3. adjective Polluted. [R.] Milton.

Etymology [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to defile, to pollute, from a prep. appearing only in comp. + luere to wash. See Position, Lave.]

Etymology [L. pollutus.]

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

Sanskrit

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