deride

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈɹaɪd/
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• General-American: /dəˈɹaɪd/
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• General-American: /di-/
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• rhymes with -aɪd
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 R AY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin dērīdēre, the present active infinitive of dērīdeō (“to laugh at, make fun of, mock, deride”), from dē- (prefix denoting putting down or subjecting to indignity) + rīdeō (“to laugh; to laugh at, mock, ridicule”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”) (referring to turning the mouth to smile) or *wreyd- (“to carve; to scratch”)). cognates * Old French dérider (rare), derire

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: осмивам (osmivam) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Bulgarian: осмея (osmeja) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Chinese Mandarin: 嘲笑 (cháoxiào) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Chinese Mandarin: 揶揄 (yéyú) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Czech: posmívat se — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Czech: vysmívat se — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Czech: zesměšňovat — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Czech: zesměšnit — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Dutch: belachelijk maken — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Dutch: bespotten — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Dutch: ridiculiseren — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Esperanto: moki — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Finnish: ivata — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Finnish: pilkata — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• French: bafouer — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• French: railler — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• German: lächerlich machen — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• German: lustig machen über — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• German: verhöhnen — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• German: verlachen — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• German: verspotten — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌼𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bimampjan) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Greek: λοιδωρώ (loidoró) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Ingrian: pilkata — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Interlingua: derider — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Italian: deridere — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Japanese: 嘲る (azakeru) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Japanese: 嘲笑う (azawarau) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Japanese: 嘲笑する (chōshō suru) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Latin: dērīdeō — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Macedonian: потсмева (potsmeva) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Māori: tānoa — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Māori: tānoanoa — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Māori: tāwai — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Māori: whakatakē — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Māori: whakarōriki — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Māori: whakatoihara — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Norwegian: spotte — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Old English: āhliehhan — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Persian: به استهزا گرفتن — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Polish: wyśmiewać — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Portuguese: escarnecer — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Portuguese: ridicularizar — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Russian: насмеха́ться (nasmexátʹsja) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Russian: высме́ивать (vysméivatʹ) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Russian: вы́смеять (výsmejatʹ) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Sanskrit: पीयति (pīyati) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Spanish: burlarse de — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Spanish: irrisionar — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Spanish: ridiculizar a — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Swedish: förlöjliga — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Swedish: håna — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Swedish: skratta åt — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Tagalog: alipusta — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Telugu: గేలిచేయు (gēlicēyu) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Telugu: ఎగతాళిచేయు (egatāḷicēyu) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Thai: เยาะเย้ย (yɔ́-yə́əi) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Thai: เย้ยหยัน (yə́əi-yǎn) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Ottoman Turkish: گولمك (gülmek) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Ukrainian: висміювати (vysmijuvaty) — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Vietnamese: chế giểu — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn
• Vietnamese: chế nhạo — to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly — see also ridicule, scorn