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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throw away

verb

Forms throws away throwing away threw away thrown away

  1. verb (transitive) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash. “He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn't find a trash can.”
  2. verb (transitive, figuratively) To waste, to squander. “Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away.”
  3. verb (American football, slang) To intentionally throw an incomplete pass.
  4. verb (idiomatic) To give lightly, in an offhand manner.

Synonyms

see at discard discard fling toss toss out toss away chuck out cast aside dispose throw out cast out cast away put away shed cast cast off shake off throw throw off drop

Etymology

From throw + away. First attested in the late 14c.

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