ridiculize

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ridiculize (third-person singular simple present ridiculizes, present participle ridiculizing, simple past and past participle ridiculized)

(obsolete or nonstandard) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
- 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:
  My heart still trembling, lest the false alarmes
  That words oft strike up should ridiculize me.
  The spelling has been modernized.

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“ridiculize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Verb edit

ridiculize

inflection of ridiculizar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative