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{
"term": "disagree",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "disagree",
"heSheIt": "disagrees"
},
"pastSimple": "disagreed",
"pastParticiple": "disagreed",
"ingForm": "disagreeing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "if two people disagree or one person disagrees with another about something, they have a different opinion about it",
"sensetop": "disagree with somebody disagree on somethingdisagree with somebody on somethingdisagree (with somebody) over somethingdisagree (with somebody) about somethingdisagree with somethingdisagree that…",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Even friends disagree sometimes."
},
{
"text": "No, I disagree. I don't think it would be the right thing to do."
},
{
"text": "I must **respectfully disagree** with my colleague.",
"contextForm": "disagree with somebody"
},
{
"text": "Victoria and I obviously disagree on this issue.",
"contextForm": "disagree on something"
},
{
"text": "He disagreed with his parents on most things.",
"contextForm": "disagree with somebody on something"
},
{
"text": "I'm afraid I disagree with you on that point."
},
{
"text": "Experts disagree over whether the population will be a burden or a boon in the years ahead.",
"contextForm": "disagree (with somebody) over something"
},
{
"text": "Jack and Robert disagree about everything.",
"contextForm": "disagree (with somebody) about something"
},
{
"text": "I **strongly disagree** with this decision.",
"contextForm": "disagree with something"
},
{
"text": "to disagree with a statement/view/conclusion/policy"
},
{
"text": "Some people disagree with this argument."
},
{
"text": "Few would disagree that students learn best when they are interested in the topic.",
"contextForm": "disagree that…"
},
{
"text": "He and I simply disagree."
},
{
"text": "I disagree strongly with this idea."
},
{
"text": "They disagreed totally with this policy."
},
{
"text": "I feel uncomfortable publicly disagreeing with a colleague."
},
{
"text": "I flatly disagreed with that policy."
},
{
"text": "I must respectfully disagree with her on this point."
},
{
"text": "I personally disagreed with several elements of the proposal."
},
{
"text": "It is difficult to disagree with the chairman on this point."
},
{
"text": "Ministers disagree over the scale of the changes."
},
{
"text": "The only time we sharply disagreed was over the children's education."
},
{
"text": "We disagree on this matter."
},
{
"text": "When I pointed out that it had been her idea in the first place, she could hardly disagree."
},
{
"text": "No, I disagree. I don't think it would be the right thing to do."
},
{
"text": "She disagreed that building more roads was the only way to handle traffic congestion."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["emphatically", "passionately", "profoundly"],
"verb + disagree": ["be difficult to", "be hard to", "can hardly"],
"preposition": ["about", "on", "over"],
"phrases": ["to agree to disagree"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "if statements or reports disagree, they give different information",
"sensetop": "disagree on somethingdisagree with something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The results of the two approaches disagree."
},
{
"text": "The two reports disagree on the number of people who will be affected by this change.",
"contextForm": "disagree on something"
},
{
"text": "Clinical diagnoses have frequently been reported to disagree with autopsy results.",
"contextForm": "disagree with something"
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if two people agree to differ/disagree, they accept that they have different opinions about something, but they decide not to discuss it any longer",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We must just agree to differ on this."
},
{
"text": "In the end we agreed to disagree."
},
{
"text": "I think you're wrong. Let's just agree to differ."
}
],
"topics": ["Discussion and agreement"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriː/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagree__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːz/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagrees__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːd/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagreed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagreeing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriː/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagree__us_4.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːz/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagrees__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːd/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagreed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/disagree/disagreeing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in sense (2), also in the sense ‘refuse to agree to’): from Old French desagreer."
}