Local English word record

make fun

verb · 1 sense

subject to laughter or ridicule

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Examples

  • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
  • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
  • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Word relationships

Synonyms

ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, poke fun

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Princeton WordNet 3.0