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{
"term": "kiss",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "kiss",
"heSheIt": "kisses"
},
"pastSimple": "kissed",
"pastParticiple": "kissed",
"ingForm": "kissing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to touch somebody with your lips as a sign of love or sexual desire or when saying hello or goodbye",
"sensetop": "kiss somebody/something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They stood in a doorway kissing *(= kissing each other)*."
},
{
"text": "Do people in Britain kiss when they meet?"
},
{
"text": "Go and kiss your mother goodnight.",
"contextForm": "kiss somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He bent forward to kiss her cheek."
},
{
"text": "She kissed him on both cheeks."
},
{
"text": "He lifted the trophy up and kissed it."
},
{
"text": "He bent to kiss her again."
},
{
"text": "He kissed her long and hard on the mouth."
},
{
"text": "She let him kiss her lightly on the cheek."
}
],
"topics": ["Family and relationships"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["gently", "lightly", "lovingly"],
"verb + kiss": ["bend to", "lean over to", "stoop to"],
"preposition": ["on"],
"phrases": [
"kiss and cuddle",
"kiss somebody full on the lips",
"kiss somebody full on the mouth"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to gently move or touch something",
"sensetop": "kiss something",
"labels": "(literary)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The sunlight kissed the warm stones."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a way of referring to somebody talking publicly, usually for money, about a past sexual relationship with somebody famous",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be very nice to somebody in order to persuade them to help you or to give you something",
"labels": "(offensive, slang)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to take away the pain of an injury by kissing it",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Come here and let me kiss it better."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to accept that you will lose something or be unable to do something",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Well, you can kiss goodbye to your chances of promotion."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kɪs/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kiss__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪz/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kisses__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kɪst/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kissed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪŋ/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kissing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kɪs/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kiss__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪz/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kisses__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kɪst/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kissed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪŋ/",
"audio": "ki/kiss/kissing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English cyssan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kussen and German küssen."
}