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English
Etymology
From ridicule + -ize.
Verb
ridiculize (third-person singular simple present ridiculizes, present participle ridiculizing, simple past and past participle ridiculized)
- (obsolete or nonstandard) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-third Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume II, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:My heart still trembling, lest the false alarmes
That words oft strike up should ridiculize me.
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Portuguese
Verb
ridiculize
- inflection of ridiculizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative