deride

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See also: déride and déridé

English

Etymology

From Middle French dérider, from Latin dērīdeō (“to mock, laugh at”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + rīdeō (“to laugh”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈɹaɪd/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

deride (third-person singular simple present derides, present participle deriding, simple past and past participle derided)

  1. (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.
    • 2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport‎:
      Italy's eventual win was worthy of an audience filling Wembley twice over, the joy of Mancini and his players a brutal contrast to the despair of much-derided Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who had actually rescued them with an equaliser in normal time after Federico Chiesa's superb opener for Italy.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈri.de/
  • Rhymes: -ide
  • Hyphenation: de‧rì‧de

Verb

deride

  1. third-person singular present indicative of deridere

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Latin

Verb

dērīdē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dērīdeō

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Noun

deride

  1. locative singular of deri
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