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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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“seeps” is a form of

seep

/siːp/ verb, noun

Forms seeps seeping seeped

  1. verb (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. “Water has seeped through the roof.”
  2. verb (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. “Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.”
  3. verb (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly. “The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.”
  4. verb (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak. “The crack is seeping water.”
  5. verb (Scotland) To soak.
  6. noun A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
  7. noun Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
  8. noun The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
  9. noun A seafloor vent.

Synonyms

leak ooze

Etymology

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.

Etymology [AS. sipan to distill.]

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