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

“removes” is a form of

remove

UK /ɹɪˈmuːv/ · US /ɹɪˈmuv/ verb, noun

Forms removes removing removed removest removedst removeth

  1. verb (transitive) To delete.
  2. verb (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away. “He removed the marbles from the bag.”
  3. verb (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
  4. verb (transitive) To murder.
  5. verb (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  6. verb (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  7. verb (intransitive, now rare) To depart, to leave; to move oneself or be moved.
  8. verb (intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
  9. noun The act of removing something.
  10. noun (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
  11. noun (UK) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
  12. noun A step or gradation (as in the phrase “at one remove”).
  13. noun Distance in time or space; interval.
  14. noun (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
  15. noun (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
  16. noun (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

Synonyms

unstay abate bate deduct knock off subduct subtract take take away take off withdraw get rid of take out move out transfer absent murder slay hit dispatch bump off off polish off

Antonyms

settle place add

Etymology

From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
  2. verb To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. "King Richard thus removed." Shak.
  3. verb To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
  4. noun The act of removing; a removal.

Etymology [OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.]

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

Sanskrit

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