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ridiculizes

ridiculizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 ridiculizes

What is ridiculizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ridiculizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ridiculize.

Words near ridiculizes in the dictionary

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

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