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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tear up

/ˈtɛəɹ ˈʌp/ verb

Forms tears up tearing up tore up torn up teared up

  1. verb (transitive) To tear into pieces. “The student tore up his test after he found out his mark of 20%.”
  2. verb (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract). “I finally persuaded the landlord to tear up the lease and move to a month-by-month rental.”
  3. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To damage. “The lacrosse practice really tore up the field.”
  4. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against. “In his first year, his hitting tore up the league's opposing pitchers.”
  5. verb (transitive) To wrench out of the ground. “We tore up the weeds from the allotment.”
  6. verb (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with. “Chad tore up Stacy after that party.”
  7. verb (transitive, slang) To brutally assault. “Jason tore up Todd after finding out that he was having sex with his sister.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To start shedding tears. “After seeing Johnny tear up at that cheesy movie, I knew he was a loser.”

Synonyms

shred rip up

Etymology

See: tear (“to rip, shred”).

See: tear (“liquid that falls from the eyes”).

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