{
    "term": "kiss",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "kiss",
            "heSheIt": "kisses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "kissed",
        "pastParticiple": "kissed",
        "ingForm": "kissing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to touch somebody with your lips as a sign of love or sexual desire or when saying hello or goodbye",
            "sensetop": "kiss somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They stood in a doorway kissing *(= kissing each other)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do people in Britain kiss when they meet?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Go and kiss your mother goodnight.",
                    "contextForm": "kiss somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He bent forward to kiss her cheek."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She kissed him on both cheeks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He lifted the trophy up and kissed it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He bent to kiss her again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He kissed her long and hard on the mouth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She let him kiss her lightly on the cheek."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["gently", "lightly", "lovingly"],
                "verb + kiss": ["bend to", "lean over to", "stoop to"],
                "preposition": ["on"],
                "phrases": [
                    "kiss and cuddle",
                    "kiss somebody full on the lips",
                    "kiss somebody full on the mouth"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to gently move or touch something",
            "sensetop": "kiss something",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The sunlight kissed the warm stones."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a way of referring to somebody talking publicly, usually for money, about a past sexual relationship with somebody famous",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very nice to somebody in order to persuade them to help you or to give you something",
            "labels": "(offensive, slang)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to take away the pain of an injury by kissing it",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Come here and let me kiss it better."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to accept that you will lose something or be unable to do something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Well, you can kiss goodbye to your chances of promotion."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɪs/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kiss__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪz/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kisses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɪst/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kissed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kissing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɪs/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kiss__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪz/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kisses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɪst/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kissed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɪsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ki/kiss/kissing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English cyssan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kussen and German küssen."
}