{
    "term": "annoy",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "annoy",
            "heSheIt": "annoys"
        },
        "pastSimple": "annoyed",
        "pastParticiple": "annoyed",
        "ingForm": "annoying"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to make somebody slightly angry",
            "sensetop": "annoy somebodyit annoys somebody when…it annoys somebody to do something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His constant joking was beginning to annoy her.",
                    "contextForm": "annoy somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’m sure she does it just to annoy me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I only stay out late to annoy my parents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It really annoys me when people forget to say thank you.",
                    "contextForm": "it annoys somebody when…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It annoys me to see him getting ahead of me.",
                    "contextForm": "it annoys somebody to do something"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "irritate",
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["intensely", "really"],
                "verb + annoy": ["be beginning to", "be starting to"],
                "phrases": [
                    "do something just to annoy somebody",
                    "do something only to annoy somebody"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make somebody uncomfortable or unable to relax",
            "sensetop": "annoy somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He swatted a fly that was annoying him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The wasps were beginning to annoy me."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪ/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoy__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪz/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoys__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪd/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoyed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoying__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪ/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoy__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪz/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoys__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪd/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoyed__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈnɔɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "an/annoy/annoying__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘be hateful to’): from Old French anoier (verb), anoi (noun), based on Latin in odio in the phrase mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me’."
}