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{
"term": "compassion",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a strong feeling of sympathy for people or animals who are suffering and a desire to help them",
"sensetop": "compassion (for somebody)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **feel/show compassion**"
},
{
"text": "She was known as a hard woman with no compassion, no emotion."
},
{
"text": "In an overworked doctor, feelings of compassion are soon lost."
},
{
"text": "He was filled with overwhelming love and compassion for his wife."
},
{
"text": "I felt no compassion towards her."
},
{
"text": "I survived. Someone or something had had compassion on me."
},
{
"text": "In cities where many people beg, citizens quickly develop compassion fatigue."
},
{
"text": "We were treated with great compassion."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["deep", "great", "genuine"],
"verb + compassion": ["be filled with", "feel", "have"],
"compassion + noun": ["fatigue"],
"preposition": [
"compassion for",
"compassion towards/toward",
"with compassion"
],
"phrases": ["love and compassion"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpæʃn/",
"audio": "co/compassion/compassion__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpæʃn/",
"audio": "co/compassion/compassion__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin compassio(n-), from compati ‘suffer with’."
}