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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turn back

verb

Forms turns back turning back turned back

  1. verb (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps. “Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps. “The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.”
  3. verb To return to a previous state of being. “He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.”
  4. verb (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress. “The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.”
  5. verb (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting. “In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.”
  6. verb (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down. “When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.”
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.

Synonyms

about turn about face drive away repel turn away stop backtrack double back revert return retrovert regress chase away drive out dispel drive off run off check arrest contain hold back invert reverse

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