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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shut up

/ʃʌt ʌp/ verb, adjective, interjection

Forms shuts up shutting up shuddup shutup shurrup shaddup

  1. verb (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
  2. verb (transitive) To terminate (a business).
  3. verb (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container. “The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.”
  4. verb (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise. “You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?”
  5. verb (transitive, slang, dated) To murder, kill. “I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.”
  6. adjective Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
  7. interjection (highly impolite, dismissal) Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk), arguing, crying, etc. “Shut up! We're sick of your whining!”
  8. interjection (colloquial) I don't believe it!, no way! “I got accepted to Yale! —Shut up, really? That's awesome!”

Synonyms

close off seal up end terminate wind up lock up lock in seal in stash stash away shush hush silence quieten belt up button it button one's lip back that train up can it clam up close up dummy up button up be quiet keep mum lock away lock put away shut away still

Antonyms

open open up reopen establish set up start start up release

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