ridiculize en · VERB
Etymology
From ridicule + -ize.
Meanings
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(nonstandard, obsolete) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
My heart still trembling, lest the false alarmes That words oft strike up should ridiculize me.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-third Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ridiculizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| ridiculizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| ridiculized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| ridiculized | Tense=Past | lexicographic |