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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lose it

verb

Forms loses it losing it lost it

  1. verb (informal) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper. “When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just lost it.”
  2. verb (informal) To feel devastated, or distraught, especially when one's sadness is overwhelming. “When she heard the news about her cousin's death, she lost it.”
  3. verb (informal) To begin to laugh uncontrollably. “When the teacher's chair broke, the class completely lost it.”
  4. verb (informal) To lose one's mind, go crazy.
  5. verb (informal) To cease to have a skill or ability, to lose one's touch, to be washed up. “When you think about all she's done for the sport, it's kind of sad, but she's completely lost it over the past few years.”
  6. verb (idiomatic) To lose control of a situation.
  7. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, it.

Synonyms

blow one's top crash out flip out flip shit go ape go apeshit go snake hit the ceiling freak out hit the roof lose one's temper lose one's rag break down snap

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