вы́смеять — meaning in English
vysmeyat
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English meaning
- deride verb To mock someone or something harshly and with contempt.
- jeer noun A rude comment made to make fun of someone.
- laugh verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.
- ridicule verb To mock or make fun of someone or something in a scornful way.
- satirize verb To use humour or exaggeration to criticise someone or something.
- skit noun A short comic performance, usually a few minutes long, with a single joke or situation at its centre — the kind of thing performed at a school assembly, on a variety show or in a social media video.
Senses
вы́смеять is used for these senses in English:
- deride (transitive) To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.
- jeer (intransitive, with at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
- laugh (intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
- make fun of (idiomatic, informal) To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
- ridicule (transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
- satirize (transitive) To make a satire of; to mock.
- skit (transitive, Ireland, Liverpool, Merseyside) To make fun of.
deride — full definition
- verb To mock someone or something harshly and with contempt.
- verb To laugh at someone in an unkind, mocking way.
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