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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give away

verb

Forms gives away giving away gave away given away

  1. verb (transitive) To make a gift of (something). “I didn't like that book, so I gave it away.”
  2. verb (transitive, informal, by extension) To sell very cheaply.
  3. verb (transitive) To relinquish control over.
  4. verb (transitive) To formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father. “Who giveth away this woman to this man in Holy matrimony?”
  5. verb (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To unintentionally reveal a secret or divulge undisclosed information; to betray or expose someone. “He gave himself away with a stupid lie.”
  6. verb (transitive) To concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc. “Despite giving away twenty pounds in weight, the challenger found a knock-out blow in the second round.”
  7. verb (sports) To concede.

Synonyms

unwrap disclose let on bring out reveal discover expose divulge break let out denounce tell on betray rat grass shit shop snitch stag

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