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noun | verb caricaturecaricature1 /ˈkærəkətʃɚ, -ˌtʃʊr/ noun ETYMOLOGYcaricature1Origin: 1700-1800 French Italian caricatura, from caricare to load, make seem larger, worse, etc., from Late Latin carricare THESAURUSpainting/drawing► picture an image that is painted, drawn, printed, etc. on a surface: The children drew pictures of their houses. Could I paint your picture (=paint a picture of you)? ► drawing a picture that is made using a pencil or pen: The teachers asked the students to do a drawing of a tree. ► sketch a picture that is drawn quickly: Students made quick sketches of the model using charcoal. ► painting a picture made using paint: There was a painting of a mountain over the fireplace. ► portrait a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person: She offered to paint my portrait. ► illustration a picture in a book: The children’s book is full of colorful illustrations. ► cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke: In the cartoon, two rabbits are talking to each other. ► caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a particular feature of his/her face or body look bigger, worse, etc. than it really is: There was a man at the market drawing caricatures of tourists. ► poster a large picture printed on paper, used as advertising or for decoration: There were huge posters of the dictator everywhere. ► image formal a picture or shape of a person or thing that is put on something else: The image of George Washington appears on the one dollar bill. ► graphics pictures or images, especially those produced on a computer: The new computer game has 3-D graphics. 1 [countable] eng. lang. arts a funny drawing of someone that makes him or her look silly or stupid: caricatures of politicians in the newspaper► see thesaurus at picture12[countable] eng. lang. arts a description of someone or something that emphasizes only some qualities so that he, she, or it seems silly: a caricature of the Californian way of life3[countable] someone or something that seems silly because of showing very strongly the typical qualities of a particular group or type of thing: She is a caricature of an English upper-class lady.4[uncountable] eng. lang. arts the activity of making pictures of or writing about people in this way: a cartoonist with a talent for caricature [Origin: 1700–1800 French, Italian caricatura, from caricare to load, make seem larger, worse, etc., from Late Latin carricare] noun | verb caricaturecaricature2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLEcaricature |
Present | I, you, we, they | caricature | | he, she, it | caricatures | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | caricatured | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have caricatured | | he, she, it | has caricatured | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had caricatured | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will caricature | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have caricatured |
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Present | I | am caricaturing | | he, she, it | is caricaturing | | you, we, they | are caricaturing | Past | I, he, she, it | was caricaturing | | you, we, they | were caricaturing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been caricaturing | | he, she, it | has been caricaturing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been caricaturing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be caricaturing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been caricaturing |
eng. lang. arts to draw or describe someone in a way that makes him or her seem silly or stupid: Celebrities have been caricatured and hung on the restaurant’s walls. |