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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wipe out

verb

Also a form of wipeout

Forms wipes out wiping out wiped out wipe outs

  1. verb (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate. “a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town”
  2. verb (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.). “nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups”
  3. verb (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear. “trying to wipe out hunger and alleviate despair”
  4. verb (transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out. “An hour of snow shoveling kind of wiped me out more than I expected.”
  5. verb (transitive, informal) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance). “They tried hard to hang on, but the Great Depression wiped them out.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.). “shot into the half-pipe but then wiped out”
  7. verb (surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board. “A massive wave wiped him out.”

Synonyms

consume eat up use up eat deplete exhaust run through eliminate annihilate extinguish eradicate decimate carry off sweep away erase kill obliterate cancel out

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “wipe out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details