Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

blank out

verb

Forms blanks out blanking out blanked out

verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To become blank. “He removed the paper from the heat, and the paper blanked out.”
verb To temporarily lose memory. “He blanked out five minutes into the meeting.”
verb To erase (something), leaving a blank in its place. “The teacher blanked out some words from the text, which the students had to fill in.”
verb To erase from one's memory. “He blanked out the abuse he had suffered as a child.”
verb (idiomatic, transitive) To get even; to neutralise. “Beckham's second-half goal blanked out Filippi's first-half header to put the score at 1-1.”

Synonyms

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