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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relent

/ɹɪˈlɛnt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms relents relenting relented

  1. verb (intransitive) To give in or be swayed; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to show clemency. “He had planned to ground his son for a month, but relented and decided to give him a stern lecture instead.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To slacken; to abate. “We waited for the storm to relent before we ventured outside.”
  3. verb (obsolete, transitive) To lessen, make less severe or intense.
  4. verb (dated, intransitive, of substance) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield, for example by dissolving or melting
  5. noun A stay; a stop; a delay.
  6. noun (obsolete) A relenting.
  7. adjective (obsolete) Softhearted; yielding.

Synonyms

yield soften

Etymology

From Middle English relenten, from Anglo-Norman relentir, from Latin re- + lentare (“to bend”), from lentus (“soft, pliant, slow”). Earliest recording dates to 1526. The noun is from the verb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. [Obs.]
  2. verb To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, cruel, or the like; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.
  3. verb To slacken; to abate. [Obs.]
  4. verb To soften; to dissolve. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. ralentir, fr. L. pref. re- re- + ad to + lentus pliant, flexible, slow. See Lithe.]

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