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 over

verb

Forms runs over running over ran over

  1. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time. “The previous presentation ran over and ours had to start late.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cross by running. “The athletes must run over the bridge to reach the finish line.”
  3. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death. “Can you believe somebody would just run over a cat like that?”
  4. verb (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.
  5. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly. “Before we start the project, let's just run over who is doing what.”
  6. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly. “You'd better run over your statement before going on the platform.”
  7. verb (ambitransitive) To overflow. “The bath water nearly ran over.”
  8. verb (rugby) To score a try.

Synonyms

overrun run down overflow well over brim over

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