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.

hang up

verb

Forms hangs up hanging up hung up

verb (transitive) To put up to hang. “I hung up my wash on the line.”
verb (ambitransitive) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line. “When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.”
verb (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
verb (colloquial, transitive) To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
verb To rob or mug (someone).
verb To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
verb To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something). “He hung up the flute after college.”
verb To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).

Synonyms

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