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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draw out

verb

Forms draws out drawing out drew out drawn out

  1. verb To make (something) last for more time than is necessary; to prolong; to extend. “It seems the boss tries to draw out these meetings for as long as possible just to punish us.”
  2. verb To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
  3. verb To extract, to bring out, as concealed information; to elicit; to educe.
  4. verb To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or similar hiding place. “They used raw meat to draw the beast out of the cave.”
  5. verb (by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative. “She's really a neat person if you just take the time to draw her out.”
  6. verb (politics) To redraw an electoral district in order to make it unlikely a particular candidate or party will win it.
  7. verb (poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards. “Jill had a flush on the turn, but Jimmy drew out by completing a full house on the river.”
  8. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To leave the place (of an army), etc.

Synonyms

prolong protract extend educe evoke elicit extract aspirate suck out pull out pull pull up take out

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