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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do in

verb

Forms does in doing in did in done in

  1. verb (transitive, colloquial) To kill or end; to defeat. “By the eighth mile, I was sure that finishing the 10-mile hike would do me in.”
  2. verb (transitive, colloquial) To exhaust, to tire out. “I’m off to bed. I’m completely done in.”
  3. verb (transitive, colloquial) To damage or injure. “I’m off work at the moment; I’ve done my back in.”
  4. verb (transitive, slang, dated) To rob (someone); to steal or pilfer from (someone).
  5. verb (transitive, colloquial) To eat. “I can do in a dozen eggs.”

Synonyms

bump off do away with feague annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush dash deactivate dead demolish destroy dispatch neutralize neutralise liquidate waste knock off

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