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ridiculise

ridiculise is the alternative form of ridiculize.

Meaning of ridiculize

Verb

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

  1. (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...

Forms of ridiculise

third-person singular presentridiculises
present participleridiculising
past participleridiculised
pastridiculised

Questions about ridiculise

What is ridiculise the alternative form of?
Ridiculise is the alternative form of ridiculize.

Words near ridiculise in the dictionary

  1. ridicules
  2. ridiculest
  3. ridiculeth
  4. ridiculing
  5. ridiculings
  6. ridiculise
  7. ridiculised
  8. ridiculises
  9. ridiculising
  10. ridiculize
  11. ridiculized

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