Usually means: Mock or ridicule someone harshly.
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  1. deride: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deride: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deride: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deride: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deride: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deride, deride: Wordnik
  7. deride: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deride: Wiktionary
  9. deride: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deride: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deride: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deride, deride: Dictionary.com
  13. deride: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deride: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deride: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. deride: Rhymezone
  17. deride: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deride: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. deride: Free Dictionary
  20. deride: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. deride: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deride: Legal dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.

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