{
    "term": "forgive",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "forgive",
            "heSheIt": "forgives"
        },
        "pastSimple": "forgave",
        "pastParticiple": "forgiven",
        "ingForm": "forgiving"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to stop feeling angry with somebody who has done something to harm, annoy or upset you; to stop feeling angry with yourself",
            "sensetop": "forgive somebodyforgive yourselfforgive somebody/yourself for somethingforgive somebody/yourself for doing somethingforgive (something)forgive somebody something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can you ever forgive me?",
                    "contextForm": "forgive somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd never forgive myself if she heard the truth from someone else.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive yourself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll never forgive her for what she did.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive somebody/yourself for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She never forgave him for losing her ring.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive somebody/yourself for doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't forgive that type of behaviour.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive (something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We all have to learn to forgive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She'd forgive him anything.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I couldn't forgive him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I suspect that Rodney has never quite forgiven either of them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He fell to his knees and begged God to forgive him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Donna would not easily forgive Beth's silly attempt to trick her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An insult like that isn't easy to forgive."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["quite", "ever", "never"],
                "verb + forgive": ["be able to", "be unable to", "can"],
                "preposition": ["for"],
                "phrases": ["forgive and forget"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to say in a polite way that you are sorry if what you are doing or saying seems rude or silly",
            "sensetop": "forgive meforgive me for doing somethingforgive my…forgive my doing something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Forgive me, but I don't see that any of this concerns me.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive me"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Forgive me for interrupting, but I really don't agree with that.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive me for doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does the company do?",
                    "contextForm": "forgive my…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Forgive my interrupting but I really don't agree with that.",
                    "contextForm": "forgive my doing something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to say that somebody does not need to pay back money that they have borrowed",
            "sensetop": "forgive (somebody) something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The government has agreed to forgive a large part of the debt."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that it is easy to understand why somebody does or thinks something, although they are wrong",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Looking at the crowds out shopping, you could be forgiven for thinking that everyone has plenty of money."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to stop feeling angry with somebody for something they have done to you and to behave as if it had not happened",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I know what he did was wrong but don’t you think it’s time to forgive and forget?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was not the sort of man to forgive and forget."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪv/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgive__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪvz/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgives__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈɡeɪv/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgave__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪvn/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgiven__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈɡɪvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgiving__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪv/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgive__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪvz/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgives__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fərˈɡeɪv/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgave__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪvn/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgiven__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fərˈɡɪvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fo/forgive/forgiving__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch vergeven and German vergeben, and ultimately to for- and give."
}