{
    "term": "denounce",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "denounce",
            "heSheIt": "denounces"
        },
        "pastSimple": "denounced",
        "pastParticiple": "denounced",
        "ingForm": "denouncing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to strongly criticize somebody/something that you think is wrong, illegal, etc.",
            "sensetop": "denounce somebody/somethingdenounce somebody/something as something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis.",
                    "contextForm": "denounce somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.",
                    "contextForm": "denounce somebody/something as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These new regulations have been widely denounced."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["angrily", "bitterly", "roundly"],
                "preposition": ["for", "to"],
                "phrases": ["be widely denounced"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to tell the police, the authorities, etc. about somebody’s illegal political activities",
            "sensetop": "denounce somebody as somethingdenounce somebody (to somebody)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They were denounced as spies.",
                    "contextForm": "denounce somebody as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people denounced their neighbours to the secret police.",
                    "contextForm": "denounce somebody (to somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Someone in the village must have denounced them to the authorities."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊns/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denounce__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denounces__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnst/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denounced__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denouncing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊns/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denounce__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denounces__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnst/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denounced__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/denounce/denouncing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (originally in the sense ‘proclaim’, also ‘proclaim someone to be wicked, a rebel, etc.’): from Old French denoncier, from Latin denuntiare ‘give official information’, based on nuntius ‘messenger’."
}