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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beat up

/ˈbiːt ˌʌp/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms beats up beating up beated up beaten up beat ups beat-up

  1. verb (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows. “I got beaten up by thugs on my way home.”
  2. verb (transitive) To wake up earlier than (somebody). “I wanted to beat you up this morning and make breakfast for you for once.”
  3. verb (obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.
  4. verb To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
  5. verb (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. [(usually) with over or about] “Don’t beat yourself up over such a minor mistake.”
  6. verb To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
  7. verb (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
  8. verb To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
  9. adjective (slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
  10. noun A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
  11. noun (UK, military slang) A raid.
  12. noun A beating; a hazing.
  13. noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
  14. noun (forestry) A tree planted later than others in a plantation.

Synonyms

do over rough up work over process beat beaten up dilapidated hazing drum up rally

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