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

“straightened” is a form of

straighten

/ˈstɹeɪtn̩/ verb

Forms straightens straightening straightened

  1. verb (transitive) To cause to become straight.
  2. verb (intransitive) To become straight.
  3. verb (transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up. “to straighten one's affairs”
  4. verb (transitive) To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
  5. verb (transitive, slang) To bribe or corrupt.
  6. verb (intransitive) To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
  7. verb (transitive, informal) To make heterosexual.

Synonyms

unbend straighten out tidy tidy up clean up neaten square away roll out

Antonyms

bend

Etymology

From straight + -en. Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
  2. verb To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.
  3. verb A variant of Straiten. [Obs. or R.]

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

Sanskrit

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