{
    "term": "cope",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "cope",
            "heSheIt": "copes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "coped",
        "pastParticiple": "coped",
        "ingForm": "coping"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to deal successfully with something difficult",
            "sensetop": "cope with something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I got to the stage where I wasn't coping any more."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wasn't able to cope with the stresses and strains of the job.",
                    "contextForm": "cope with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Desert plants are adapted to cope with extreme heat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She copes very well under pressure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had to cope without any help."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is unable to cope with his increasing workload."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some people find unemployment very difficult to cope with."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Will the prison system cope adequately with the increasing numbers of prisoners?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Everyone finds different ways of coping with bereavement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I got to the stage where I just couldn't cope any more."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In heavy rain the system can't cope and it floods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The family is learning to cope without a car."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "manage",
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["admirably", "effectively", "well"],
                "verb + cope": ["be able", "can", "be unable to"],
                "preposition": ["with"],
                "phrases": ["somebody’s ability to cope", "a way of coping"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊp/",
                "audio": "co/cope/cope__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊps/",
                "audio": "co/cope/copes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊpt/",
                "audio": "co/cope/coped__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkəʊpɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/cope/coping__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊp/",
                "audio": "co/cope/cope__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊps/",
                "audio": "co/cope/copes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊpt/",
                "audio": "co/cope/coped__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkəʊpɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/cope/coping__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "verb Middle English (in the sense ‘meet in battle, come to blows’): from Old French coper, colper, from cop, colp ‘a blow’, via Latin from Greek kolaphos ‘blow with the fist’."
}