Mock and Try

Mock

Mock verb - To copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of.

Try and mock are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Mock".

Nearby Words: mockery, mocking, mocked, mocker, mockingly

Try

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

Mock and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mock" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

Common collocations

people mock people try people
someone mock someone try someone
team mock team try team
series mock series try series
Other words: time, way, characters, game, player, heroes.

Both words in one sentence

  • Music / Steel Panther Frequently calling known celebs on stage to join them and proceeding to mock or try to sleep with them.
  • Film / 976-EVIL Evil Phone: Spike and others who declined the phone line's offerings of power, get evil calls that mock and try to kill them.
  • Even your allies won't hesitate to super-murder you if you so much as annoy them; the only person you can trust is Javelin (the real one, not the two doppelgangers who either mock or try to hurt Riana).
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