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# taunt

«taunt» in Mova's school dictionary: **to say unkind things to hurt their feelings or to make…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (taunt, taunts, taunted, taunting); noun (taunts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To taunt someone is to say unkind things to hurt their feelings or to make them angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taunt/#m1)

2) A taunt is a cruel remark said to tease or hurt someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taunt/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fables a rival taunts another about a weakness, such as a lost race or a dull colour

### examples

- The Peacock taunted the Crane about her plain feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taunt/#x1)
- He shouted a taunt at the runner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taunt/#x2)
- Don't rise to their taunts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taunt/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.657/)
- [Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.612/)
- [Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.783/)
- [This shall they have for their pride, because they have taunted and spoken boastfully against the people of the LORD of hosts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.28/)
- [Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.724/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «taunt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taunt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.