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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regress

/ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/ noun, verb

Forms regresses regressing regressed

  1. noun The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
  2. noun The power or liberty of passing back.
  3. noun (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
  4. verb (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
  5. verb (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood. “Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.”
  6. verb (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
  7. verb (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
  8. verb (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable. “When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.”
  9. verb (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

Synonyms

retrogress backslide reconvert deconvert reasoning backward regression reversion retrogression retroversion revert return retrovert turn back retrograde relapse lapse recidivate fall back

Antonyms

advance proceed progress

Etymology

(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”). Doublet of regressus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man". F. Harrison.
  2. noun The power or liberty of passing back. Shak.
  3. verb To go back; to return to a former place or state. Sir T. Browne.

Etymology [L. regressus, fr. regredi, regressus. See Regrede.]

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