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{
"term": "annoy",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "annoy",
"heSheIt": "annoys"
},
"pastSimple": "annoyed",
"pastParticiple": "annoyed",
"ingForm": "annoying"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make somebody slightly angry",
"sensetop": "annoy somebodyit annoys somebody when…it annoys somebody to do something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "His constant joking was beginning to annoy her.",
"contextForm": "annoy somebody"
},
{
"text": "I’m sure she does it just to annoy me."
},
{
"text": "I only stay out late to annoy my parents."
},
{
"text": "It really annoys me when people forget to say thank you.",
"contextForm": "it annoys somebody when…"
},
{
"text": "It annoys me to see him getting ahead of me.",
"contextForm": "it annoys somebody to do something"
}
],
"synonyms": "irritate",
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["intensely", "really"],
"verb + annoy": ["be beginning to", "be starting to"],
"phrases": [
"do something just to annoy somebody",
"do something only to annoy somebody"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make somebody uncomfortable or unable to relax",
"sensetop": "annoy somebody",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He swatted a fly that was annoying him."
},
{
"text": "The wasps were beginning to annoy me."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪ/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoy__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪz/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoys__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪd/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoyed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoying__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪ/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoy__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪz/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoys__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪd/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoyed__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "an/annoy/annoying__us_3.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘be hateful to’): from Old French anoier (verb), anoi (noun), based on Latin in odio in the phrase mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me’."
}