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.

cut off

/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf] verb

Also a form of cutoff

Forms cuts off cutting off cut offs

verb To remove by cutting.
verb To isolate or remove from contact.
verb To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
verb (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view. “Half of his head has been cut off by the edge of the photo.”
verb To stop providing funds or something else to (someone). “His parents cut him off to encourage him to find a job.”
verb To end abruptly. “My phone call was cut off before I could get the information.”
verb To interrupt (someone speaking). “That dingbat cut me off as I was about to conclude my thesis.”
verb To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.

Synonyms

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