rode

verb

variants or chiefly dialectal rid
Definition of rodenext
past tense of ride
1
as in teased
to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing

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2
as in kidded
to make fun of in a good-natured way his wife couldn't resist riding him for forgetting his own birthday

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3
as in hovered
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air a condor riding high in the sky

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4
as in depended
to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) our plan for the party rides on whether he can come

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Recent Examples of rode The two ended up walking away laughing, and Luiz’s grin rode right into the next conversation, drill or interaction with anyone on the field. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026 The employees attended Vance's speech at the steel plant, where his grandfather worked as a welder for nearly 40 years, and rode in the vice president's motorcade. — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2026 College grad dies hours after X2 Christopher Hawley, a 22-year-old recent college graduate, rode X2 in June of 2022 with his cousin and brother. — Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 Redford first rode horseback on screen in the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026 Bucknell rode in the ambulance with the father and child to the hospital, where the child died. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 It’s been a long five years since Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car rode a rave of critical support to a Best Picture nomination off of miniscule box-office tallies. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026 The officers rode with Baines for several minutes while searching the area before one of them appeared to spot the suspect. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Mymonie rode a train to Saint Paul, Minnesota, where her uncle lived, and where the wedding would take place, in a small afternoon ceremony. — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rode
  1. teased
  2. kidded
  3. hovered
  4. depended
  5. taunted
  6. joked
  7. sailed
  8. mocked
Verb
  • West first teased the album in March 2020, initially targeting a summer release, just as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the music industry and the rhythms of live performance.
    — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Meet Lucia and Jason We've been teased for over a year now that our main duo, Lucia and Jason, are criminals, with Lucia recently being an inmate at the Leonida Penitentiary.
    — Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of teased
Verb
  • Naturally, Kelly gets kidded about that as well.
    — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2026
  • When Curt Cignetti was hired just more than two years ago, it was considered a smart move by the athletic department, but no one kidded themselves that Indiana was some sort of raucous fan sleeper cell just waiting to be activated.
    — Will Leitch, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Definition of kidded
Verb
  • The autonomous food delivery droid robots hovered on top of the food truck counter as if the surface were a stage.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026
  • But things went sideways when the drone hovered above Austen’s pool and dropped the package into the water.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of hovered
Verb
  • Although named after the Nevada gaming mecca, Las Vegas Sands has largely depended on the Asia/Macau story of the last decade.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Harvey Weinstein used his influence in Hollywood to prey on women whose careers often depended on his approval.
    — Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of depended
Verb
  • The rivalry between the two stars dates back to the 2023 NCAA women’s national championship game, when Reese's LSU Tigers defeated Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes and Reese famously, and without class, taunted Clark in the closing moments.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The older Green Lantern taunted the alien so much, that the creature detonated itself, blowing a hole into the side of the jail.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of taunted
Verb
  • Early on, the Twins joked López was the most expensive interpreter in Major League Baseball.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • But, as Slater later joked, his title reign quickly came to an end later in the night.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of joked
Verb
  • David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia had already reported results that sailed past estimates by the time CFO Colette Kress came into the earnings call with a stunning forecast for next year.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Milton, though, was flushed from the pocket, and a late throw to Brown sailed out of bounds.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of sailed
Verb
  • Barney & Friends, the enormously popular and widely mocked PBS series about a singing, dancing purple dinosaur, is the obvious touchstone for the children’s-show-as-hellscape in the new movie Buddy.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Trump has all but severed America’s system of alliances, mocked and bullied Ukraine’s president, and showered praise upon Kim Jong Un.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of mocked

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“Rode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rode. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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