"make sport of" meaning in English

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          "text": "I never heard him say a hard word about anyone, and it visibly grieved him when the rest of us made sport of our schoolmates, especially those with hopes of being published in Troubadour.",
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        "To make fun of someone or something."
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        "(idiomatic) To make fun of someone or something."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "mock"
        },
        {
          "word": "ridicule"
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        {
          "word": "tease"
        }
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          "code": "la",
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          "sense": "to make fun of someone or something",
          "word": "lūdificō"
        }
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, sport, of."
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          "of",
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    {
      "enpr": "māk spôrt əv"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯k spɔːɹt əv/",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯k spoɹt əv/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mæɪ̯k spoːɹt əv/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mek spoɹt əv/",
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meːk spoːɾʈ ov/",
      "tags": [
        "India"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make sport of"
}

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      "form": "makes sport of",
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    },
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      "form": "making sport of",
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      "form": "made sport of",
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        }
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        "To make fun of someone or something."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To make fun of someone or something."
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        },
        {
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        {
          "word": "tease"
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          "make",
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          "sport",
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          "of",
          "of#English"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "enpr": "māk spôrt əv"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯k spɔːɹt əv/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯k spoɹt əv/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mæɪ̯k spoːɹt əv/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mek spoɹt əv/",
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meːk spoːɾʈ ov/",
      "tags": [
        "India"
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    {
      "code": "la",
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      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "to make fun of someone or something",
      "word": "lūdificō"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make sport of"
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