Both Uses
taunt
in
We Beat the Street
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- You can't make me," his brother taunted back.†
Chpt 3taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
- "You scared to go over to the cemetery, man?" a boy named Crusher taunted Sampson.†
Chpt 7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(taunt) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults
or (as a noun): an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, taunt can be used as a noun to refer to something said or done to mock, criticize, and/or tease.