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 off

verb

Forms runs off running off ran off

  1. verb To flee or depart quickly. “Don't run off before the end of the event.”
  2. verb (idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print. “Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out.”
  3. verb (idiomatic) To write something quickly. “Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days.”
  4. verb (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over. “They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.”
  5. verb To cause to flow away. “to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace”
  6. verb To chase someone away. “If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off.”
  7. verb To operate by a particular energy or fuel source. “This radio runs off batteries.”
  8. verb To have diarrhea.

Synonyms

run away print off print out dash off whip up chase off chase away scare off runs check off tick off rattle off run down make off with abscond bolt absquatulate decamp go off make off run out bolt out beetle off drive out turn back drive away dispel drive off elope waste

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