{
    "term": "merge",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "merge",
            "heSheIt": "merges"
        },
        "pastSimple": "merged",
        "pastParticiple": "merged",
        "ingForm": "merging"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to combine or make two or more things combine to form a single thing",
            "sensetop": "merge with somethingmerge into somethingmerge (A and B) (together)merge A with Bmerge somethingmerge something into something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The banks are set to merge next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two groups have merged to form a new party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His department will merge with mine.",
                    "contextForm": "merge with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The villages expanded and merged into one large town.",
                    "contextForm": "merge into something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fact and fiction merge together in his latest thriller.",
                    "contextForm": "merge (A and B) (together)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His department will be merged with mine.",
                    "contextForm": "merge A with B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company was formed by merging three smaller firms.",
                    "contextForm": "merge something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Merge multiple text files into one master file.",
                    "contextForm": "merge something into something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company announced plans to merge with its biggest rival."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two groups later merged to form Interdrug."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government decided to merge the two agencies together."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "if two things merge, or if one thing merges into another, the differences between them gradually disappear so that it is impossible to separate them",
            "sensetop": "merge (into something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The hills merged into the dark sky behind them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The figures gradually merged into the darkness."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to behave quietly when you are with a group of people so that they do not notice you",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mɜːdʒ/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merge__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɜːdʒɪz/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merges__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mɜːdʒd/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merged__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɜːdʒɪŋ/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merging__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mɜːrdʒ/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merge__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɜːrdʒɪz/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merges__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mɜːrdʒd/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merged__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɜːrdʒɪŋ/",
                "audio": "me/merge/merging__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger."
}