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.

pass out

verb

Forms passes out passing out passed out

verb (intransitive) To faint; to become unconscious. “I pass out at the sight of blood.”
verb (slang) To fall asleep irrespective of wilful action, as a result of the consumption of alcohol or other drugs or another form of physiological exhaustion.
verb (transitive) To distribute. “We'll pass out copies of the agenda.”
verb (of soldiers, police, fire-fighters, etc.) To graduate, usually marked by a ceremony at the end of training.
verb (by extension) To become proficient in a particular job or task.
verb (India) To graduate from university. “He passed out of the Madras University in 1990.”
verb (bridge, transitive) To end (a round) by having passes as the first four bids.
verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, out.

Synonyms

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