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

“trespassed” is a form of

trespass

UK /ˈtɹɛspəs/ · US /ˈtɹɛspæs/ noun, verb

Forms trespasses trespassing trespassed

  1. noun (law) An intentional interference with another's property or person.
  2. noun (archaic) sin
  3. verb (intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To offend against, to wrong (someone).
  5. verb (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude. “to trespass upon the time or patience of another”
  6. verb (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
  7. verb (obsolete) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
  8. verb (transitive, law, especially New Zealand) To subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass “The dean trespassed the streaker from his university.”

Synonyms

transgress cross the line exceed surpass transcend encroachment violation intrusion usurpation intrude take advantage sin overstep

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English trespas, from Old French trespas (“passage; offense against the law”), from trespasser.

From Middle English trespassen, borrowed from Old French trespasser (“to go across or over, transgress”), from tres- (“across, over”) + passer (“to pass”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.]
  2. verb To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
  3. noun Any injury or offence done to another.
  4. noun Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. The fatal trespass done by Eve. Milton.

Etymology [OF. trespasser to go across or over, transgress, F. trépasser to die; pref. tres- (L. trans across, over) + passer to pass. See Pass, v. i., and cf. Transpass.]

Etymology [OF. tr, F. trépas death. See Trespass, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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