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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break out

verb

Forms breaks out breaking out broke out broken out

  1. verb (intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. “They broke out of prison in the middle of the night.”
  2. verb (transitive) To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1. “After Big Tony was sent to prison, his friends got together to break him out.”
  3. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To bring out from storage, use, or present. “Break out the bubbly and celebrate.”
  4. verb (transitive) To separate (something) from a bundle. “Break out the cables from the harness once they are inside the frame.”
  5. verb (transitive) To take or force out by breaking. “to break out a pane of glass”
  6. verb (intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition. “He broke out in sweat.”
  7. verb (intransitive, of a person) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face. “break out in hives”
  8. verb (especially recording industry or movies, intransitive) (Of a record, film, product, or company): to achieve widespread success. “It wasn't until later that her album broke out and she hit the big time.”

Synonyms

bust out sunder out erupt break break away recrudesce

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