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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blow a fuse

verb

Forms blows a fuse blowing a fuse blew a fuse blown a fuse

  1. verb (electricity) To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from flowing.
  2. verb (idiomatic, informal) To lose one's temper; to become enraged. “When he learned that his daughter had eloped, he blew a fuse.”

Synonyms

Note: All terms are idiomatic unless stated otherwise. blow a gasket blow one's stack blow one's top crash out cut up nasty cut up rough do one's block do one's nut flip one's lid flip one's wig flip out fly into a rage fly off the handle forget oneself get bent out of shape get one's back up get one's dander up get one's Irish up get one's shirt out blow up throw a fit hit the roof hit the ceiling have kittens have a fit combust lose one's temper go ballistic

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