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satirize

[sat-uh-rahyz]
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verb (used with object), sat·i·rized, sat·i·riz·ing.

to attack or ridicule with satire.
Also especially British, sat·i·rise.

Origin of satirize

First recorded in 1595–1605; satire + -ize
Related formssat·i·riz·a·ble, adjectivesat·i·ri·za·tion, nounsat·i·riz·er, nounnon·sat·i·riz·ing, adjectiveun·sat·i·riz·a·ble, adjectiveun·sat·i·rized, adjective
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Related Words for satirized

lampoon, spoof, mock, parody, caricature, jeer, ride, needle, josh, haze, cartoon, burlesque, mimic, deride, roast, humiliate, rib, banter, pan, kid

Examples from the Web for satirized

Contemporary Examples of satirized

  • “I've long felt that Beck uses tactics like I satirized on the site,” Eiland-Hall told The Daily Beast in an email interview.

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    The Man Who Beat Glenn Beck

    Benjamin Sarlin

    November 12, 2009

Historical Examples of satirized

  • The poets, the Laconizers, and Protagoras are satirized at the same time.

  • The obvious abuses of the time are satirized in this way ad nauseam.

  • Since literature has existed moralists have satirized fashion.

    Folkways

    William Graham Sumner

  • “You are a gentle object,” he satirized her, loosening his hold.

    Mountain Blood

    Joseph Hergesheimer

  • The satirized do not see themselves in the exaggerated type.

British Dictionary definitions for satirized

satirize

satirise

verb

to deride (a person or thing) by means of satire
Derived Formssatirization or satirisation, nounsatirizer or satiriser, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for satirized

satirize

v.

c.1600, from French satiriser (see satire (n.)). Related: Satirized; satirizing.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper