{
    "term": "commend",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "commend",
            "heSheIt": "commends"
        },
        "pastSimple": "commended",
        "pastParticiple": "commended",
        "ingForm": "commending"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to praise somebody/something, especially publicly",
            "sensetop": "commend somebody/something (for something/for doing something)commend somebody/something (on something/on doing something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was commended on her handling of the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His designs were **highly commended** by the judges *(= they did not get a prize but they were especially praised)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His book was highly commended."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "preposition": ["for", "to"],
                "phrases": [
                    "be highly commended",
                    "be widely commended",
                    "something has little, much, nothing, etc. to commend it"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to recommend somebody/something to somebody",
            "sensetop": "commend somebody/something (to somebody)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She is an excellent worker and I commend her to you without reservation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The movie **has little to commend it** *(= it has few good qualities)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The proposed site has much to commend it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She said she would commend the proposal to the Board."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Suggestions and advice"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "if something commends itself to somebody, they approve of it",
            "sensetop": "commend itself to somebody",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His outspoken behaviour did not commend itself to his colleagues."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to give somebody/something to somebody in order to be taken care of",
            "sensetop": "commend somebody/something to somebody",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We commend her soul to God."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmend/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commend__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmendz/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commends__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmendɪd/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commended__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmendɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commending__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmend/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commend__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmendz/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commends__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmendɪd/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commended__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmendɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/commend/commending__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Latin commendare, from com- (expressing intensive force) + mandare ‘commit, entrust’. Compare with command."
}