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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drop off

verb

Forms drops off dropping off dropped off

  1. verb (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep. “After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television.”
  2. verb (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight. “Can you drop the kids off at school?”
  3. verb (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from. “The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree.”
  4. verb (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall. “The leaves hung on until the end of November, then dropped off quickly.”
  5. verb (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed. “As soon as a caller drops off, we'll have an open line and maybe you can reach us then.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To lessen or reduce. “Sales have dropped off in recent months.”
  7. verb (intransitive, slang, dated) To die.
  8. verb (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on. “My lawyer said some of those charges will be dropped off.”

Synonyms

drift off doze off crash out fall asleep get off go night-night go to sleep nod off nod out sack out zone fall off taper off dwindle dope off flake out drowse off drop set down put down unload discharge fall back lose fall behind recede slip drop away fall away

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