{
    "term": "duplicate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "duplicate",
            "heSheIt": "duplicates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "duplicated",
        "pastParticiple": "duplicated",
        "ingForm": "duplicating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to make an exact copy of something",
            "sensetop": "duplicate something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Please keep the duplicated form and send us the original."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a natural look which you can easily duplicate at home."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["exactly", "simply", "easily"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to do something again, especially when it is unnecessary",
            "sensetop": "duplicate something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There's no point in duplicating work already done."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The original experiment cannot be exactly duplicated."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["exactly", "simply", "easily"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪt/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪts/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈduːplɪkeɪt/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈduːplɪkeɪts/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈduːplɪkeɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈduːplɪkeɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "du/duplicate/duplicating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘having two corresponding parts’): from Latin duplicat- ‘doubled’, from the verb duplicare, from duplic- ‘twofold’, from duo ‘two’ + plicare ‘to fold’."
}