word-vault/dist/data/cards/na/naked.json

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{
    "term": "naked",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not wearing any clothes",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was clutching the sheet around her naked body."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The photograph showed a naked man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was naked from the waist up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They often wandered around the house **stark naked** *(= completely naked)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They found him **half naked** and bleeding to death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The prisoners were **stripped naked**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I suggest you don't make a habit of going around half naked."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He quickly stripped naked."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I dreamt I went to school stark naked."
                },
                {
                    "text": "buck naked"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "bare",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "quite"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "with nothing to cover it",
            "sensetop": "naked of something",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a naked light"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a naked sword"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mice are born naked *(= without fur)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a naked flame"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the sight of a tree, naked of its leaves"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "bare"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "expressed strongly and not hidden",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "naked aggression"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Revealed: the naked truth about your favourite soap stars."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "unable to protect yourself from being harmed, criticized, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He still felt naked and drained after his ordeal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Never had he felt so completely naked."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the normal power of your eyes without the help of an instrument",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The planet should be visible **with/to the naked eye**."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈneɪkɪd/",
                "audio": "na/naked/naked__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈneɪkɪd/",
                "audio": "na/naked/naked__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English nacod, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch naakt and German nackt, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nudus and Sanskrit nagna."
}