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{
"term": "forgive",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "forgive",
"heSheIt": "forgives"
},
"pastSimple": "forgave",
"pastParticiple": "forgiven",
"ingForm": "forgiving"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to stop feeling angry with somebody who has done something to harm, annoy or upset you; to stop feeling angry with yourself",
"sensetop": "forgive somebodyforgive yourselfforgive somebody/yourself for somethingforgive somebody/yourself for doing somethingforgive (something)forgive somebody something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Can you ever forgive me?",
"contextForm": "forgive somebody"
},
{
"text": "I'd never forgive myself if she heard the truth from someone else.",
"contextForm": "forgive yourself"
},
{
"text": "I'll never forgive her for what she did.",
"contextForm": "forgive somebody/yourself for something"
},
{
"text": "She never forgave him for losing her ring.",
"contextForm": "forgive somebody/yourself for doing something"
},
{
"text": "I can't forgive that type of behaviour.",
"contextForm": "forgive (something)"
},
{
"text": "We all have to learn to forgive."
},
{
"text": "She'd forgive him anything.",
"contextForm": "forgive somebody something"
},
{
"text": "I couldn't forgive him."
},
{
"text": "I suspect that Rodney has never quite forgiven either of them."
},
{
"text": "He fell to his knees and begged God to forgive him."
},
{
"text": "Donna would not easily forgive Beth's silly attempt to trick her."
},
{
"text": "An insult like that isn't easy to forgive."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["quite", "ever", "never"],
"verb + forgive": ["be able to", "be unable to", "can"],
"preposition": ["for"],
"phrases": ["forgive and forget"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "used to say in a polite way that you are sorry if what you are doing or saying seems rude or silly",
"sensetop": "forgive meforgive me for doing somethingforgive my…forgive my doing something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Forgive me, but I don't see that any of this concerns me.",
"contextForm": "forgive me"
},
{
"text": "Forgive me for interrupting, but I really don't agree with that.",
"contextForm": "forgive me for doing something"
},
{
"text": "Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does the company do?",
"contextForm": "forgive my…"
},
{
"text": "Forgive my interrupting but I really don't agree with that.",
"contextForm": "forgive my doing something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to say that somebody does not need to pay back money that they have borrowed",
"sensetop": "forgive (somebody) something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The government has agreed to forgive a large part of the debt."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that it is easy to understand why somebody does or thinks something, although they are wrong",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Looking at the crowds out shopping, you could be forgiven for thinking that everyone has plenty of money."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to stop feeling angry with somebody for something they have done to you and to behave as if it had not happened",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I know what he did was wrong but don’t you think it’s time to forgive and forget?"
},
{
"text": "He was not the sort of man to forgive and forget."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪv/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgive__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪvz/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgives__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fəˈɡeɪv/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgave__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪvn/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgiven__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪvɪŋ/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgiving__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪv/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgive__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪvz/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgives__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fərˈɡeɪv/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgave__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪvn/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgiven__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪvɪŋ/",
"audio": "fo/forgive/forgiving__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch vergeven and German vergeben, and ultimately to for- and give."
}