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bemock

bemock verb: to ridicule or mock.

Verb

bemock (third-person singular simple present bemocks, present participle bemocking, simple past and past participle bemocked)

  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...

Forms of bemock

third-person singular presentbemocks
present participlebemocking
past participlebemocked
pastbemocked

Origin of bemock

From be- + mock.

Questions about bemock

What does bemock mean?
Bemock means to ridicule or mock.
What part of speech is bemock?
Bemock is a verb.
What is the past tense of bemock?
The past tense of bemock is bemocked.

Words near bemock in the dictionary

  1. bemoaning
  2. bemoaningly
  3. bemoanings
  4. bemoans
  5. bemoccasined
  6. bemock
  7. bemocked
  8. bemocking
  9. bemocks
  10. bemoil
  11. bemoiled

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