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ridiculized

ridiculized is the simple past and past participle 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...

Questions about ridiculized

What is ridiculized the simple past and past participle of?
Ridiculized is the simple past and past participle of ridiculize.

Words near ridiculized in the dictionary

  1. ridiculise
  2. ridiculised
  3. ridiculises
  4. ridiculising
  5. ridiculize
  6. ridiculized
  7. ridiculizes
  8. ridiculizing
  9. ridiculosities
  10. ridiculosity
  11. ridiculous

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