mock

mock
    adj 1: constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in
           mock battle"
    n 1: the act of mocking or ridiculing; "they made a mock of him"
    v 1: treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all
         democratic principles" [syn: {mock}, {bemock}]
    2: imitate with mockery and derision; "The children mocked their
       handicapped classmate"
    

Mock \Mock\, v. i.
   To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful
   or jeering manner.
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         When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
                                                  --Job xi. 3.
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         She had mocked at his proposal.          --Froude.
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Mock \Mock\, v. t. [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.
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            To see the life as lively mocked as ever
            Still sleep mocked death.             --Shak.
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            Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak.
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   2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
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            Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. --1 Kings
                                                  xviii. 27.
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            Let not ambition mock their useful toil. --Gray.
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   3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as,
      to mock expectation.
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            Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. --Judg. xvi.
                                                  13.
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            He will not . . .
            Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
                                                  --Milton.
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   Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint.
        See {Deride}.
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Mock \Mock\, n.
   1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous
      act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
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            Fools make a mock at sin.             --Prov. xiv.
                                                  9.
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   2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] --Crashaw.
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Mock \Mock\, a.
   Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed;
   sham.
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         That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator.
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   {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} (Zool.), the European blackcap.

   {Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs
      ({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled
      cymes. {Philadelphus 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}.
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316 Moby Thesaurus words for "mock":
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      artificial, aspersion, assume, assumed, atrocity, back answer,
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      smacking of, sneer, sneer at, snow, so-called, soi-disant,
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      swindle, swipe, synthetic, take, take in, take off, take off on,
      take on, take over, tantalize, taunt, tease, temporary, tentative,
      tin, tinsel, titivated, token, travesty, treat with indignity,
      trick, twisted, twit, two-time, unauthentic,
      uncomplimentary remark, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal,
      utility, utter a mot, verbal thrust, vicarious, warped,
      whited sepulcher, wisecrack