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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squelch

/ˈskwɛlt͡ʃ/ verb, noun

Forms squelches squelching squelched

  1. verb (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force. “Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.”
  2. verb (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
  3. verb (intransitive, UK) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground. “The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.”
  4. verb (intransitive, UK) To walk or step through a substance such as mud. “The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.”
  5. noun (countable) A squelching sound.
  6. noun (countable, dated) A heavy blow or fall.
  7. noun (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.

Synonyms

quash put-down squelcher takedown squelch circuit quell quench squish splash splosh slosh slop squash crush mash squeeze

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash + quell + quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To quell; to crush; to silence or put down. [Colloq.]
  2. noun A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply. [Colloq.] Hudibras.

Etymology [Cf. prov. E. quelch a blow, and quel to crush, to kill.]

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