From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsatirizesat‧ir‧ize (also satirise British English) /ˈsætəraɪz/ verb [transitive] MAKE FUN OFto use satire to make people see someone’s or something’s faults a play satirizing the fashion industry→ See Verb table
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satirize• These groups have often been satirized and ridiculed.• When you think about it, none of our best-selling satirical novelists have actually satirized anything for years.• So cohesive and distinctive was the culture of Los Alamos that it could be satirized effectively.• A friend has told me that you've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife.• Glick's book satirizes small-town politics.• Melville uses this chapter to satirize the Quakers.• Yet the scholarly energy which reinvigorated abstract concepts of political function was identical with that which satirized them. 