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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eat up

verb

Forms eats up eating up ate up eaten up

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To consume completely. “He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.”
  2. verb (transitive, slang, figurative) To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone). “His anger has been eating him up.”
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To subtract, use up. “His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him.”
  4. verb (transitive, figurative, informal) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning. “She ate up everything that her image consultant said.”
  5. verb (transitive, slang) To acclaim or praise (someone or something); to consume (absorb information). “They eat up every book he puts out.”
  6. verb (transitive, US, informal, chiefly of children or pets) To find something to be very cute. “You're so cute, I could just eat you up!”
  7. verb (transitive, slang, figurative) To go quickly on a route. “We ate up the road to Pennsylvania.”
  8. verb (transitive, slang) To be very good at; to succeed at; to smash. (Compare eat and leave no crumbs.)

Synonyms

finish polish off consume use up eat deplete exhaust run through wipe out immerse swallow swallow up bury

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