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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send away

verb

Forms sends away sending away sent away

  1. verb (idiomatic, transitive) To dismiss from one's presence. “The salesman was taking up too much time with his nonsense, so I sent him away.”
  2. verb (idiomatic, transitive) To send (someone) to a particular place for a long time, as a family member, an employee, etc. “We are going to send our son away to live with his uncle in America for a year.”
  3. verb (idiomatic, euphemistic, transitive) To imprison (someone). “the judge sent him away”
  4. verb (idiomatic, intransitive) To dispatch orders to a place for something to be delivered. “We sent away for some of the items in the gardening catalogue.”
  5. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, away.

Synonyms

lock up shut away dismiss send packing drop displace fire give notice can give the axe sack force out give the sack terminate

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