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 out

verb

Forms blows out blowing out blew out blown out

  1. verb (transitive) To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas. “He blows out the match.”
  2. verb (transitive) To destroy or degrade (something) quickly, especially inadvertently and prematurely; for example, to deflate (a tire) by puncturing it, to burn out a light bulb by overcurrent, or to injure a bodily joint. “I blew out a tire on some hard cornering.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To be destroyed or degraded quickly, especially inadvertently and prematurely. “The tire blew out on some hard cornering.”
  4. verb (sports, transitive) In a sporting contest, to dominate and defeat an opposing team, especially by a large scoring margin. “The No. 1-rated football team proceeded to blow out its undermanned opponent.”
  5. verb (transitive) To exhaust; to physically tire.
  6. verb (transitive) To force open or out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour.
  7. verb (intransitive) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour. “A steam cock or valve sometimes blows out.”
  8. verb (slang, vulgar, archaic) To talk violently or abusively.

Synonyms

burn out blow snuff out extinguish quench

Etymology

From Middle English blow out, blowe out, dissimilated forms of earlier Middle English outblowen, ut-blawen (> English outblow), equivalent to blow + out. Compare West Frisian útblaze (“to blow out”), Dutch uitblazen (“to blow out”), German ausblähen and ausblasen (“to blow out”), Danish blæse ud (“to blow out”), Swedish blåsa ut (“to blow out”).

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