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.

blockage

UK /ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/ noun

Forms blockages

noun (uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked.
noun (countable) The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage. “There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.”
noun Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism. “Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.”
noun Synonym of constipation (“impairment of feces passage”).

Synonyms

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blockage”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details