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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stench

/stɛnt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms stenches stenching stenched

  1. noun a strong foul smell; a stink.
  2. noun (figurative) A foul quality. “the stench of political corruption”
  3. noun (obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
  4. verb (obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
  5. verb To stanch.

Synonyms

stink pong fetor funk malodor niff nosesore reek malodour foetor mephitis

Antonyms

aroma fragrance perfume

Etymology

From Middle English stench, from Old English stenċ (“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”). Cognate with Dutch stank (“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank (“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank (“stench”), Swedish stank (“stench”), Icelandic stækja (“stench”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To stanch. [Obs.] Harvey.
  2. noun A smell; an odor. [Obs.]
  3. noun An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink. Cowper. Stench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.
  4. verb To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. stenc a strong smell, fr. stincan. See Stink, v. i.]

Etymology [AS. stencan to emit a smell, fr. stincan to smell. See Stench, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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