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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straighten out

verb

Forms straightens out straightening out straightened out

  1. verb (transitive) To make straight. “Straighten out your necktie and comb your hair.”
  2. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To correct or rectify. “I hope they can straighten out the problem with my bill soon.”
  3. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To eliminate confusion from or concerning. “As soon as I straighten out which of the twins is which, I'll start calling them by their names.”
  4. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To correct; to stop doing something wrong. “It is not enough to stand aside and hope problems straighten out on their own.”
  5. verb (transitive) To tidy, neaten, or organize.
  6. verb (transitive, Mafia slang) To be made a made man in a Mafia organization.
  7. verb (transitive, informal) To make heterosexual.

Synonyms

straighten sort out figure out work out tidy up iron out put right disentangle unsnarl reform see the light clear clear up shed light on crystallize crystallise crystalize crystalise enlighten illuminate elucidate tidy clean up neaten square away

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