Thesaurus: mock

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1. v. t. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
2. v. t. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
3. v. t. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
4. v. i. To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
5. n. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
6. n. Imitation; mimicry.
7. a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
8. adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something
9. n. the act of mocking or ridiculing
10. v. treat with contempt
11. v. imitate with mockery and derision
12. 1. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak. 2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii. 27. Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Gray. 3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi. 13. He will not ... Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton. Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride. To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner. When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed Job xi. 3. She had mocked at his proposal. Froude. 1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer. Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9. 2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] Crashaw. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. That superior greatness and mock majesty. Spectator. Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. -- Mock sun. See Parhelion. -- Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. -- Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.