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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relax

/ɹɪˈlæks/ verb

Forms relaxes relaxing relaxed

  1. verb (transitive) To make something loose. “to relax a rope or cord”
  2. verb (transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open. “An aperient relaxes the bowels.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To become loose.
  4. verb (transitive) To relieve (someone or someone's mind) of stress; to enable to rest; to calm down. “Amusement relaxes the mind.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To rest and become relieved of stress. “I like to relax by listening to music.”
  6. verb (transitive) To make something less severe or tense. “to relax discipline”
  7. verb (intransitive) To become less severe or tense. “Tensions between the two countries have relaxed somewhat in recent weeks.”
  8. verb (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.

Synonyms

expand chill out unwind loosen up unbend decompress slow down loosen loose unstrain unlax make relaxed slack slacken slack up

Antonyms

stress excite tense

Etymology

From Middle English relaxen, from Old French relaxer, from Latin relaxāre (“relax, loosen, open”), from re- (“back”) + laxāre (“loosen”), from laxus (“loose, free”). By surface analysis, re- + lax (“open, free, loose”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
  2. verb To make less severe or rogorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, esrnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
  3. verb To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
  4. verb To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

Etymology [L. relaxare; pref. re- re- + laxare to loose, to slacken, from laxus loose. See Lax, and cf. Relay, n., Release.]

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

Sanskrit

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