Bemock

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To ridicule or mock. archaic
  2. 2
    treat with contempt wordnet
  3. 3
    To mock repeatedly; flout. transitive
  4. 4
    To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit. transitive
  5. 5
    To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance archaic, transitive

    "thought could not divide The actual world from these entangling evils, Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried All shapes like mine own self, hideously multiplied."

Synonyms

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mockmock

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"thought could not divide The actual world from these entangling evils, Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried All shapes like mine own self, hideously multiplied."

Etymology

From be- + mock.

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