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.

minimize

UK /ˈmɪn.ɪ.maɪz/ · US /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/ verb

Forms minimizes minimizing minimized minimise

verb (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce. “We have to minimize the budget.”
verb (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish. “The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.”
verb (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption. “I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.”
verb (transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
verb (transitive) To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize. “to minimize someone's feelings”

Synonyms

From Latin minimus + -ize.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “minimize”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details