[
  {
    "word": "administer",
    "phonetic": "/\u0259d\u02c8m\u026an\u026ast\u025a/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u0259d\u02c8m\u026an\u026ast\u025a/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/administer-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2650610",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To apportion out, distribute.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To minister (to).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "administering to the sick"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To give, as an oath.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/administer"
    ]
  }
]