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

“putrifying” is a form of

putrefy

/ˈpjutɹəfaɪ/ verb

Forms putrefies putrefying putrefied putrify

  1. verb To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.
  2. verb To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
  3. verb To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
  4. verb To become gangrenous.
  5. verb To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous. “to putrefy an ulcer or wound”
  6. verb To corrupt; to make foul.

Synonyms

decay fester rot

Etymology

From Middle French putréfier.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
  2. verb To corrupt; to make foul.
  3. verb To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot. Isa. 1. 6.

Etymology [F. putréfier; L. putrere to be rotten + -ficare (in. comp.) to make; cf. L. putrefacere. See Putrid, and -fy.]

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

Sanskrit

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