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{
"term": "insist",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "insist",
"heSheIt": "insists"
},
"pastSimple": "insisted",
"pastParticiple": "insisted",
"ingForm": "insisting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to demand that something happen or that somebody agree to do something",
"sensetop": "insist on somebody/something doing somethinginsist on somebody's/something's doing somethinginsist that…",
"labels": "(formal)(British English also)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I didn't really want to go but he insisted."
},
{
"text": "Stay and have lunch. I insist!"
},
{
"text": "‘Please come with us.’ ‘Very well then, **if you insist**.’"
},
{
"text": "She insisted on him wearing a suit.",
"contextForm": "insist on somebody/something doing something"
},
{
"text": "She insisted on his wearing a suit.",
"contextForm": "insist on somebody's/something's doing something"
},
{
"text": "He insists that she come.",
"contextForm": "insist that…"
},
{
"text": "He insists that she should come."
},
{
"text": "He quietly but firmly insisted."
},
{
"text": "I'm paying for this—no, I absolutely insist."
},
{
"text": "The company insisted that the money be paid immediately."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["firmly", "strongly", "vehemently"],
"verb + insist": ["continue to", "try to"],
"preposition": ["on", "upon"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to state clearly that something is true, especially when other people do not believe you",
"sensetop": "insist on somethinginsist (that)…+ speech",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He insisted on his innocence.",
"contextForm": "insist on something"
},
{
"text": "He insisted (that) he was innocent.",
"contextForm": "insist (that)…"
},
{
"text": "The government has always insisted that this was not the case."
},
{
"text": "‘It's true,’ she insisted.",
"contextForm": "+ speech"
},
{
"text": "He loudly insisted that he had a right to stay."
},
{
"text": "She still insists her critics are wrong."
},
{
"text": "Jackson has repeatedly insisted that the allegations were false."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["firmly", "strongly", "vehemently"],
"verb + insist": ["continue to", "try to"],
"preposition": ["on", "upon"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪst/",
"audio": "in/insist/insist__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪsts/",
"audio": "in/insist/insists__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪd/",
"audio": "in/insist/insisted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/insist/insisting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪst/",
"audio": "in/insist/insist__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪsts/",
"audio": "in/insist/insists__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪd/",
"audio": "in/insist/insisted__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/insist/insisting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘persist, persevere’): from Latin insistere ‘persist’, from in- ‘upon’ + sistere ‘stand’."
}