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{
"term": "denounce",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "denounce",
"heSheIt": "denounces"
},
"pastSimple": "denounced",
"pastParticiple": "denounced",
"ingForm": "denouncing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to strongly criticize somebody/something that you think is wrong, illegal, etc.",
"sensetop": "denounce somebody/somethingdenounce somebody/something as something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis.",
"contextForm": "denounce somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.",
"contextForm": "denounce somebody/something as something"
},
{
"text": "The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures."
},
{
"text": "These new regulations have been widely denounced."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["angrily", "bitterly", "roundly"],
"preposition": ["for", "to"],
"phrases": ["be widely denounced"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to tell the police, the authorities, etc. about somebody’s illegal political activities",
"sensetop": "denounce somebody as somethingdenounce somebody (to somebody)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They were denounced as spies.",
"contextForm": "denounce somebody as something"
},
{
"text": "Many people denounced their neighbours to the secret police.",
"contextForm": "denounce somebody (to somebody)"
},
{
"text": "Someone in the village must have denounced them to the authorities."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊns/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denounce__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denounces__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnst/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denounced__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denouncing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊns/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denounce__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denounces__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnst/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denounced__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/denounce/denouncing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (originally in the sense ‘proclaim’, also ‘proclaim someone to be wicked, a rebel, etc.’): from Old French denoncier, from Latin denuntiare ‘give official information’, based on nuntius ‘messenger’."
}