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{
"term": "deal",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "deal",
"heSheIt": "deals"
},
"pastSimple": "dealt",
"pastParticiple": "dealt",
"ingForm": "dealing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to give cards to each player in a game of cards",
"sensetop": "deal (something) (out) (to somebody)deal somebody something",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Whose turn is it to deal?"
},
{
"text": "Start by dealing out ten cards to each player.",
"contextForm": "deal (something) (out) (to somebody)"
},
{
"text": "He dealt me two aces.",
"contextForm": "deal somebody something"
}
],
"topics": ["Games and toys"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to buy and sell illegal drugs",
"sensetop": "deal (something)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "You can often see people dealing openly on the streets."
},
{
"text": "He was sent to jail for dealing drugs to his friends."
}
],
"topics": ["Crime and punishment"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to shock somebody/something very much; to be very harmful to somebody/something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her sudden death dealt a blow to the whole country."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to hit somebody/something",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to tell somebody that they cannot change a situation so they must accept it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That's the way it is, so deal with it!"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to do a lot of complicated deals in business or politics, often in a dishonest way",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/diːl/",
"audio": "de/deal/deal__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/diːlz/",
"audio": "de/deal/deals__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/delt/",
"audio": "de/deal/dealt__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/deal/dealing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/diːl/",
"audio": "de/deal/deal__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/diːlz/",
"audio": "de/deal/deals__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/delt/",
"audio": "de/deal/dealt__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/deal/dealing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "verb Old English dǣlan ‘divide’, ‘participate’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch deel and German Teil ‘part’ (noun), also to dole. The sense ‘divide’ gave rise to ‘distribute’, hence sense 1 of the verb and 'deal somebody/something a blow'; the sense ‘participate’ gave rise to ‘have dealings with’, hence senses 2 of the verb and 'deal with'/'deal in'."
}