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 up

verb

Also a form of breakup

Forms breaks up breaking up broke up broken up break ups break-up

  1. verb (transitive) To break or separate into pieces. “Break up the cheese and put it in the salad.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart. “It broke up when it hit the ground.”
  3. verb (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
  4. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship. “She broke up with her boyfriend last week.”
  5. verb (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other. “Jane and Stephen broke up.”
  6. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part. “The meeting finally broke up after a three-hour discussion.”
  7. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
  8. verb (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate. “You're breaking up. Can you repeat that? Well, it got cut off.”

Synonyms

disperse dissipate dispel scatter separate part split up split break crash break apart interrupt disrupt cut off dissolve resolve crack up crack crock up collapse disassemble dismantle take apart sever pick calve adjourn recess fragment fragmentize

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