{
    "term": "inhabit",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "inhabit",
            "heSheIt": "inhabits"
        },
        "pastSimple": "inhabited",
        "pastParticiple": "inhabited",
        "ingForm": "inhabiting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to live in a particular place",
            "sensetop": "inhabit something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Some of the rare species that inhabit the area are under threat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He reflected on what a strange world Stephen and Veronica inhabited."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪt/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabit__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪts/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabits__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabited__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabiting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪt/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabit__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪts/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabits__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabited__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/inhabit/inhabiting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English inhabite, enhabite, from Old French enhabiter or Latin inhabitare, from in- ‘in’ + habitare ‘dwell’ (from habere ‘have’)."
}