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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let down

verb

Forms lets down letting down

  1. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody. “I promised him I would meet him there, and I will not let him down.”
  2. verb (transitive, clothing) To lengthen by undoing and resewing a hem.
  3. verb (intransitive) To reduce one's level of effort.
  4. verb To soften in tempering.
  5. verb (cooking) To thin; to reduce the thickness or viscosity of.
  6. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, down: especially, to allow to descend. “let down your hair”

Synonyms

cross up dingo sell out stab in the back assfuck betray burn cop out cross out double-cross do someone dirty do the dirty on false go back on knife play someone false quisle renegade sell sell the pass lower take down get down bring down disappoint

Antonyms

come through keep faith abide by hold on go to the wall for someone stand by stick by stick with take in put up

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