ridiculize
verbEtymology From ridicule + -ize.
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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 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC: