Definition: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
Usage: The physicist debunked the psychic's claims
Similar words: jest at, make fun, laugh at, blackguard, guy, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast
Definition: subject to laughter or ridicule
Usage: 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