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sarcase

sarcase verb: to attack with sarcasm.

Verb

sarcase (third-person singular simple present sarcases, present participle sarcasing, simple past and past participle sarcased)

  1. (rare, transitive) To attack with sarcasm.
    • Dr. Parker, sacrilegious Dr. Parker, is really sarcasing the great god of his idolatry himself — a dreadful thing to do.1886, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

Forms of sarcase

third-person singular presentsarcases
present participlesarcasing
past participlesarcased
pastsarcased

Origin of sarcase

Back-formation from sarcasm.

Questions about sarcase

What does sarcase mean?
Sarcase means to attack with sarcasm.
What part of speech is sarcase?
Sarcase is a verb.
What is the past tense of sarcase?
The past tense of sarcase is sarcased.

Words near sarcase in the dictionary

  1. sarbut
  2. sarbuts
  3. sarc
  4. sarc-
  5. sarcalumenin
  6. sarcase
  7. sarcased
  8. sarcases
  9. sarcasing
  10. sarcasm
  11. sarcasm detector

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