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.

back out

verb

Forms backs out backing out backed out

verb (transitive) To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space. “He backed out of the garage.”
verb (intransitive) To withdraw from something one has agreed to do. “She backed out of organizing the fund-raising.”
verb (transitive) To convince (someone) to withdraw from a challenge.
verb (gambling) To bet on someone losing.
verb (computing, transitive) To undo (a change). “I had to back out the changes made to the computer when it became apparent that they had stopped it working properly.”
verb (computing, intransitive) To exit a mode or function. “I chose that menu option by accident, so I pressed Escape to back out.”
verb (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also bare back).

Synonyms

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