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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run down

verb

Forms runs down running down ran down

  1. verb (transitive) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them. “He was run down while crossing the main road.”
  2. verb (transitive) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly. “Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down.”
  3. verb (transitive) To find something or someone after searching for a long time. “I finally managed to run down that report. I had filed it incorrectly.”
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device. “You need to wind up the clock every day so that it doesn't run down.”
  5. verb (transitive) To read quickly a list or other short text. “Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.”
  6. verb (transitive) To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
  7. verb (UK, transitive) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure. “The board of directors have decided to run down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale.”
  8. verb To decline in quality or condition. “to run down in health”

Synonyms

run over knock down run to earth run to ground put down demean berate track down check out poop out peter out run out conk out scan skim rake glance over exhaust play out sap tire

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