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bemock en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + mock.

Meanings

1. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
2. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
3. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
4. (archaic, transitive) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance
   • thought could not divide The actual world from these entangling evils, Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried All shapes like mine own self, hideously multiplied. 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 215:

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