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 up

verb, adjective

Forms gives up giving up gave up given up

  1. verb (transitive) To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). “He was surrounded, so gave himself up.”
  2. verb (transitive) To relinquish (something) “He gave up his seat to an old man.”
  3. verb (transitive) Devote or dedicate (oneself, one's life, etc.) to something. “I gave myself up to working for this cause.”
  4. verb (transitive) To have someone obtain (something) to one's disadvantage; to concede. “A good pitcher will give up very few home runs.”
  5. verb (transitive) To stop or quit (an activity, etc.). “They gave up the search when it got dark.”
  6. verb (transitive) To abandon (someone or something) “I gave up my faith years ago.”
  7. verb (transitive) To lose hope concerning (someone or something) “They gave him up for dead.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To admit defeat, capitulate; to desist for that reason. “OK, I give up, you win.”
  9. adjective (US dialectal) Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, etc.

Synonyms

surrender yield forlend cease discontinue blin turn away from desert forlet forsake capitulate give in throw in the towel wave the white flag forfeit throw overboard waive forgo forego abandon drop out fall by the wayside drop by the wayside throw in quit chuck up the sponge stop lay off spare part with

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