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{
"term": "unite",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "unite",
"heSheIt": "unites"
},
"pastSimple": "united",
"pastParticiple": "united",
"ingForm": "uniting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to join together with other people in order to do something as a group",
"sensetop": "unite in somethingunite in doing somethingunite behind/against somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Nationalist parties united to oppose the government's plans."
},
{
"text": "Local resident groups have **united in opposition** to the plan.",
"contextForm": "unite in something"
},
{
"text": "We will unite in fighting crime.",
"contextForm": "unite in doing something"
},
{
"text": "Will they unite behind the new leader?",
"contextForm": "unite behind/against somebody/something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make people or things join together to form a unit; to join together",
"sensetop": "unite (somebody/something)unite (somebody/something) (with somebody/something)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A special bond unites our two countries.",
"contextForm": "unite (somebody/something)"
},
{
"text": "His aim was to unite Italy."
},
{
"text": "The two countries united in 1887."
},
{
"text": "She unites keen business skills with a charming personality.",
"contextForm": "unite (somebody/something) (with somebody/something)"
},
{
"text": "uniting the North with the South"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪt/",
"audio": "un/unite/unite__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪts/",
"audio": "un/unite/unites__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪtɪd/",
"audio": "un/unite/united__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "un/unite/uniting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪt/",
"audio": "un/unite/unite__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪts/",
"audio": "un/unite/unites__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪtɪd/",
"audio": "un/unite/united__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/juˈnaɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "un/unite/uniting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin unit- ‘joined together’, from the verb unire, from unus ‘one’."
}