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.

dry up

verb

Forms dries up drying up dried up

verb (intransitive) To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. “I'll go shopping when it dries up.”
verb (transitive) To cause to become dry. “The heatwave dried up all the rivers.”
verb (intransitive, ambitransitive) To manually dry dishes and utensils. “I'll dry up if you wash up.”
verb (transitive) To deprive someone of (something vital). “The bankruptcy rumor dried up his sales.”
verb (intransitive) To gradually decrease and eventually cease. “When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs.”
verb (intransitive) To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say. “This surprised me so much that I dried up for a moment.”
verb (of an actor) To forget one's lines.
verb (1930s US slang) To stop talking or drop a topic. “Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!”

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