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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“subverting” is a form of

subvert

UK /səbˈvɜːt/ · US /səbˈvɝt/ verb, noun

Forms subverts subverting subverted

  1. verb (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  2. verb (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. “The oppressive regime stays in power only as long as they manage to subvert the will of the people.”
  3. verb (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
  4. noun An advertisement created by subvertising.

Synonyms

devastate erase wreck destroy annihilate aerosolize atomize benothing bewreck blot out blotto dash decompose demolish desolate diffuse disintegrate disperse dissolve eliminate overthrow overturn bring down corrupt pervert demoralize demoralise debauch debase profane

Etymology

From Middle English subverten, from Old French subvertir, from Latin subvertō (“to overthrow”, literally “to underturn, turn from beneath”).

Back-formation from subvertising, by analogy with advert.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  2. verb To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. 2 Tim. iii. 14.
  3. verb To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.

Etymology [L. subvertere, subversum; sub under + vertere to turn: cf. F. subvertir. See Verse.]

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