treating or labeling as a dunce; humiliating by calling foolish.
Present participle of 'bedunce', functioning as an adjective or verb form describing the ongoing action of treating someone as a dunce.
This word is doing double duty—it can be both an active verb ('he is beduncing his rival') and an adjective describing the effect ('a beduncing remark').
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