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.

cool off

verb

Forms cools off cooling off cooled off

verb (intransitive) To decrease in temperature, activity, or temper. “You are getting a little too angry; you need to cool off.”
verb (transitive) To cause to decrease in temperature, activity or temper. “At first he was very angry, but his friends managed to cool him off.”
verb (intransitive) To lose interest or enthusiasm [with on].
verb (intransitive) To be imprisoned. “He's cooling off in the state pen.”
verb (transitive, slang) To kill (someone).
verb (intransitive, slang) To wait for a furor to die down; to hide during a police manhunt. “After doing the job, he went to the safehouse to cool off.”

Synonyms

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