to caricature
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6.6
- verb
- /ˈkɛrɪkətʃʊr/
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caricaturizar
- The comic strip often caricatures politicians by exaggerating their features and mannerisms for humorous effect.
- caricatured version
And the way business is often caricatured by its enemies.
- And the way business is often caricatured by its enemies.
- And you will, in this kind of conflict, eventually start to caricature and miss important details about people you don't understand.
- Now this gets sort of caricatured as yeah, you when you measure something, you affect it.
Examples
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In trying to explain that resistance, their theories caricature affirmative action's opponents as hopelessly naive, secretly prejudiced, or venal and uncaring.
Academic text (1990) -
In his later work, such as Diary of a Victorian Dandy (1998), a series of large-scale photographs, Shonibare caricatures Victorian society.
Academic text (2001) -
However, musical stereotypes can caricature a culture.
Academic text (2006) -
And the way business is often caricatured by its enemies.
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And you will, in this kind of conflict, eventually start to caricature and miss important details about people you don't understand.
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The issue furnished another way to strike against their own countries, caricaturing Israel as a Western creation.
Academic text (1990) -
We caricature this difference, for example, by referring to the former as classicist and the latter as romanticist.
Academic text (2000) -
She will go on and contrast everything that she has just caricatured in a in a polite but essentially negative way.
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Amid this national politics, Japanese men associated with "Third World" women have been caricatured negatively, if not symbolically expelled from the national borders.
Academic text (2007) -
In the United States, a set of stereotypes and prejudices were popularized that caricatured the "inherent inferiority" of African slaves.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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3.4
Make fun of someone by copying them to show dislike
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5.3
To copy the style of someone or something to make it funny by exaggerating features
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7.2
To make fun of people or ideas to show their faults, often by using exaggeration
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5.8
To copy someone's words or actions to make fun of them
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6.3
Imitate something in a funny way to make people laugh
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5.0
To copy someone's actions to make a joke
To imitate someone in a funny, exaggerated way to make fun of them
Compounds
A tropical shrub with purple or red tube-shaped flowers and leaves with patterns like a human face
How Exaggerated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Caricature as a verb comes from the same Italian caricare meaning 'to load', like putting extra weight on certain parts. So to caricature someone is to exaggerate their looks or habits—making their features larger or more obvious to create a comic or pointed effect.