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ridiculizing

ridiculizing is the present participle and gerund 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 ridiculizing

What is ridiculizing the present participle and gerund of?
Ridiculizing is the present participle and gerund of ridiculize.

Words near ridiculizing in the dictionary

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

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