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verb (used with object), -rid·ed, -rid·ing.
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
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deride
1520s, from M.Fr. derider, from L. deridere "to ridicule, laugh to scorn" (see derision). Related: Derided; deriding.
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