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taunted


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Taunt  \Taunt\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Taunted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Taunting}.]  [Earlier,  to  tease;  probably  fr  OF  tanter  to 
  tempt,  to  try  for  tenter.  See  {Tempt}.] 
  To  reproach  with  severe  or  insulting  words  to  revile;  to 
  upbraid;  to  jeer  at  to  flout. 
 
  When  I  had  at  my  pleasure  taunted  her  --Shak. 
 
  Syn:  To  deride;  ridicule;  mock;  jeer;  flout;  revile.  See 
  {Deride}. 




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