{
    "term": "unify",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "unify",
            "heSheIt": "unifies"
        },
        "pastSimple": "unified",
        "pastParticiple": "unified",
        "ingForm": "unifying"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to join people, things, parts of a country, etc. together so that they form a single unit",
            "sensetop": "unify something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The new leader hopes to unify the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the task of unifying Europe"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a unified transport system"
                },
                {
                    "text": "attempts to unify different groups into one political party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "relatively unified societies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a step towards a complete, fully unified theory"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪ/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unify__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪz/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unifies__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪd/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unified__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unifying__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪ/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unify__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪz/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unifies__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪd/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unified__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnɪfaɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "un/unify/unifying__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: from French unifier or late Latin unificare ‘make into a whole’."
}