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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wreck

/ˈɹɛk/ noun, verb

Forms wrecks wrecking wrecked

  1. noun Something or someone that has been ruined. “He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.”
  2. noun The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
  3. noun An event in which something is damaged through collision.
  4. noun (specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
  5. noun (law, uncountable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
  6. noun (ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
  7. verb (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. “He wrecked the car in a collision.”
  8. verb (transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
  9. verb (transitive, obsolete) To plunder goods from wrecked ships.
  10. verb (transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
  11. verb (transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
  12. verb (intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.

Synonyms

basket case, mess crash ruins shipwreck bust up wrack

Antonyms

build construct make produce

Etymology

From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (whence Norwegian rek, Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to pursue”, whence Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old Saxon wrekan, Old High German rëhhan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan)), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to track; to hunt; to follow”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb See 2d & 3d Wreak.
  2. noun The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
  3. noun Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
  4. verb To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.

Etymology [OE. wrak, AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.]

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

Sanskrit

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