word-vault/dist/data/cards/re/recount1.json

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{
    "term": "recount",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "recount",
            "heSheIt": "recounts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "recounted",
        "pastParticiple": "recounted",
        "ingForm": "recounting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to tell somebody about something, especially something that you have experienced",
            "sensetop": "recount something (to somebody)recount what, how, etc…+ speech",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was asked to recount the details of the conversation to the court.",
                    "contextForm": "recount something (to somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They recounted what had happened during those years.",
                    "contextForm": "recount what, how, etc…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘It was before the war,’ he recounted.",
                    "contextForm": "+ speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The murders are recounted in gruesome detail."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The story of his life is vividly recounted in this new book."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊnt/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recount__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊnts/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recounts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊntɪd/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recounted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊntɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recounting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊnt/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recount__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊnts/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recounts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊntɪd/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recounted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkaʊntɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/recount/recounting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old Northern French reconter ‘tell again’, based on Old French counter, from the verb computare ‘calculate’, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’."
}