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caricature 1, noun(dictionary)
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caricature (iou)



caricature noun & verb. M18.
[French from Italian caricatura, from caricare to load, exaggerate, from late Latin car(ri)care: see CHARGE verb, -URE.]
A. noun.
Grotesque or ludicrous representation by exaggeration of characteristic traits, in drawing, writing, mime, etc.; a portrait or other representation displaying this. M18.
E. A. Freeman Stories..which..illustrate, if only by caricature, some real feature in his character. E. Waugh One man drew an offensive caricature of me.
An exaggerated or debased imitation or version (of), naturally or unintentionally ludicrous. M18.
G. Saintsbury The Wanderer is a caricature of all the very worst faults of eighteenth-century poetic diction. S. Naipaul He glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes, a caricature of petty crookedness.
b. verb trans. Portray or imitate by a grotesque or ludicrous exaggeration of characteristic traits; burlesque. M18.
carica'tural adjective of the nature of a caricature L19.
caricaturist noun a person who practises caricature L18.