to treat cruelly;to mock, to ridicule, to laugh (at), to jeer (at), to make a fool (of), to make game (of).
Дієприслівникова форма: знущавшись, знущаючись
Деепричастная форма: издеваясь
¤ знущатися над народом -- издеваться над народом
"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party." Herbert Hoover
"Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." John Paul Jones
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked." Walter Savage Landor