word-vault/dist/data/cards/im/immune.json

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{
    "term": "immune",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "that cannot catch or be affected by a particular disease or illness",
            "sensetop": "immune (to something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Adults are often immune to German measles."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people are immune to this disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The vaccination doesn't necessarily make you completely immune."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health and Fitness"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "totally"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not affected by something, especially something that you might expect to be harmful",
            "sensetop": "immune (to something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You'll eventually become immune to criticism."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Few people are immune to her charms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our business is far from immune to economic conditions."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "totally"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "protected from something and therefore able to avoid it",
            "sensetop": "immune (from something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "No one should be immune from prosecution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Not even the monarch was immune from criticism by the press."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "totally"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmjuːn/",
                "audio": "im/immune/immune__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmjuːn/",
                "audio": "im/immune/immune__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘free from (a liability)’): from Latin immunis ‘exempt from public service or charge’, from in- ‘not’ + munis ‘ready for service’. Sense 1 dates from the late 19th cent."
}