RIDICULE, DERIDE, MOCK, TAUNT mean to make an object of laughter of.

RIDICULE implies a deliberate often malicious belittling.

e.g. consistently ridiculed everything she said

DERIDE suggests contemptuous and often bitter ridicule.

e.g. derided their efforts to start their own business

MOCK implies scorn often ironically expressed as by mimicry or sham deference.

e.g. youngsters began to mock the helpless wino

TAUNT suggests jeeringly provoking insult or challenge.

e.g. hometown fans taunted the visiting team

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the subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior: 軽蔑的で拒否するような言葉や振る舞いを人や物に受けさせること

あざけり, 嘲笑, 冷やかし, からかい

e.g. he is held up as an object of ridicule.: 彼は嘲笑の対象として挙げられる。

subject (someone or something) to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior: 軽蔑的で拒否するような言葉や振る舞いを(人、物に)受けさせる

«…(したと)のことで» 〈人･考えなど〉をあざける, 嘲笑する, 冷やかす, からかう «for doing» .

e.g. his theory was ridiculed and dismissed.: 彼の理論は嘲笑され却下された。

late 17th century: from French, or from Latin ridiculum, neuter (used as a noun) of ridiculus ‘laughable’, from ridere ‘to laugh’.