RIDICULE


Meaning of RIDICULE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪdɪkju:l ]

( ridicules, ridiculing, ridiculed)

1.

If you ridicule someone or ridicule their ideas or beliefs, you make fun of them in an unkind way.

I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back...

= mock

VERB : V n

2.

If someone or something is an object of ridicule or is held up to ridicule , someone makes fun of them in an unkind way.

As a heavy child, she became the object of ridicule from classmates...

N-UNCOUNT

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