From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mock \Mock\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mocking}.] [F. moquer, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken to mumble, G. mucken, OSw. mucka.]
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}.
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