(~s, ridiculing, ~d)
1.
If you ~ someone or ~ their ideas or beliefs, you make fun of them in an unkind way.
I admired her all the more for allowing them to ~ her and never striking back...
= mock
VERB: V n
2.
If someone or something is an object of ~ or is held up to ~, someone makes fun of them in an unkind way.
As a heavy child, she became the object of ~ from classmates...
N-UNCOUNT