-esce

a suffix appearing in verbs borrowed from Latin, where it had an inchoative meaning: coalesce; convalesce.

[< Latin -ēscere]

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acquiesce
bleed
convalesce
duress
ear
effervesce
-escence
-escent
exit
numb
obsolete
opalesce
vanish

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Often English words contain auto-accented sequences of a foreign origin (e.g., -ide, -alre, -ee, -eer, -esce, -esque, -eur, Vque, -ehe, -ier, -oo, and -oon), where the major accent falls on these word-final auto-accented sequences.

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-engined
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-engined
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-enoic
-enriched
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-ent
-ent
-eous
-eous
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-er
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-er
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-erel
-ergetic
-ergic
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-eroo
-ers
-ery
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-escence
-escent
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-ese
-esis
-esque
-ess
-ess
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-est
-est
-est
-est
-et
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-eth
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-etic
-etic
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-euse
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-ey
-eyed
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