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say it: tahyth
tithe is a verb and noun meaning "exact a tithe from". It is pronounced /ˈtaɪð/ — tahyth. It carries 6 recorded senses.
pay one tenth of; pay tithes on, especially to the church
“He tithed his income to the Church”
pay a tenth of one's income, especially to the church
“Although she left the church officially, she still tithes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tithe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.