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tauntverb to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insultsthe principal reminded the student athletes that taunting their opponents was not showing good sportsmanship bait, hassle, haze, heckle, needle, ride, tease deride, gibe(or jibe), jeer, mock, ridiculeannoy, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, fret, frost, gall, get, gnaw (at), grate, gripe, hack (off), hagride, irk, irritate, itch, nag, nark(British), nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, spite, trouble, vexaggravate, exasperate, goad, test, tryaggrieve, agitate, bedevil, beleaguer, discomfort, disturb, perturbbadger, dog, houndbrowbeat, bully, hectorharass, harry, persecute, plague, terrorize, torment, torture make game of, pick on ridicule, deride, mock, taunt mean to make an object of laughter of.ridicule implies a deliberate often malicious belittling.consistently ridiculed everything she said deride suggests contemptuous and often bitter ridicule.derided their efforts to start their own business mock implies scorn often ironically expressed as by mimicry or sham deference.youngsters began to mock the helpless wino taunt suggests jeeringly provoking insult or challenge.hometown fans taunted the visiting team ca. 1527 |