Meaning of mock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To mimic, to simulate.
2. To create an artistic representation of.
   rare
3. To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
5. To create a mockup or prototype of.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.”

“Mocking marriage with a dame of France.”

“[I]ts sculptor well those passions read / Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: […]”

“And it came to paſſe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and ſaide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is purſuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he ſleepeth, and muſt be awaked.”

“Let not ambition mock their useful toil.”

“The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!”

“"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."”

“And Delilah ſaid vnto Samſon, hitherto thou haſt mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mighteſt be bound.”

“Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?”

“He will not […] / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.”

“‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.”

“The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.”

“They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.”

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