{
    "term": "disagree",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "disagree",
            "heSheIt": "disagrees"
        },
        "pastSimple": "disagreed",
        "pastParticiple": "disagreed",
        "ingForm": "disagreeing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "if two people disagree or one person disagrees with another about something, they have a different opinion about it",
            "sensetop": "disagree with somebody disagree on somethingdisagree with somebody on somethingdisagree (with somebody) over somethingdisagree (with somebody) about somethingdisagree with somethingdisagree that…",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Even friends disagree sometimes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No, I disagree. I don't think it would be the right thing to do."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I must **respectfully disagree** with my colleague.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Victoria and I obviously disagree on this issue.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He disagreed with his parents on most things.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree with somebody on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm afraid I disagree with you on that point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Experts disagree over whether the population will be a burden or a boon in the years ahead.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree (with somebody) over something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jack and Robert disagree about everything.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree (with somebody) about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **strongly disagree** with this decision.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to disagree with a statement/view/conclusion/policy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some people disagree with this argument."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Few would disagree that students learn best when they are interested in the topic.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He and I simply disagree."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I disagree strongly with this idea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They disagreed totally with this policy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I feel uncomfortable publicly disagreeing with a colleague."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I flatly disagreed with that policy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I must respectfully disagree with her on this point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I personally disagreed with several elements of the proposal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is difficult to disagree with the chairman on this point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ministers disagree over the scale of the changes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The only time we sharply disagreed was over the children's education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We disagree on this matter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When I pointed out that it had been her idea in the first place, she could hardly disagree."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No, I disagree. I don't think it would be the right thing to do."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She disagreed that building more roads was the only way to handle traffic congestion."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["emphatically", "passionately", "profoundly"],
                "verb + disagree": ["be difficult to", "be hard to", "can hardly"],
                "preposition": ["about", "on", "over"],
                "phrases": ["to agree to disagree"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "if statements or reports disagree, they give different information",
            "sensetop": "disagree on somethingdisagree with something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The results of the two approaches disagree."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two reports disagree on the number of people who will be affected by this change.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Clinical diagnoses have frequently been reported to disagree with autopsy results.",
                    "contextForm": "disagree with something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if two people agree to differ/disagree, they accept that they have different opinions about something, but they decide not to discuss it any longer",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We must just agree to differ on this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the end we agreed to disagree."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think you're wrong. Let's just agree to differ."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriː/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagree__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːz/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagrees__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːd/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagreed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagreeing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriː/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagree__us_4.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːz/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagrees__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːd/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagreed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/disagree/disagreeing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in sense (2), also in the sense ‘refuse to agree to’): from Old French desagreer."
}