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.

block out

verb

Forms blocks out blocking out blocked out

verb (transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating. “High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays.”
verb (idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind. “After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality.”
verb (transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
verb (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out. “to block out a plan”

Synonyms

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