caricature

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car·i·ca·ture1 /ˈkærɪkətʃʊə $ -tʃʊr/ noun  1  [countable]AVPICTURE a funny drawing of someone that makes them look silly 人物漫画caricature of caricatures of politicians 政治人物的漫画像2  [countable]AL a description of someone or something that is only partly true and makes them seem silly 讽刺性描写，夸张性描述caricature of The report presents a caricature of the true situation. 这则报道对真实的情况进行了夸张的描述。3. [uncountable]AV the activity of drawing or writing caricatures 漫画手法；讽刺描述法

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caricature• The young man looked like a caricature of a South American polo player.• Unfortunately, popular folklore eventually romanticized the leader and his tribe, reducing them almost to comic book caricatures.• Unfortunately, now four years later our original leader has become a cartoon caricature.• Klein began his career by drawing caricatures of local politicians in the paper.• Their personalities are easily exaggerated, their foibles ripe for caricature or psychotherapy.• Politicians are used to having caricatures of themselves printed in newspapers.• It's a sort of caricature of a machine.• We had our caricatures drawn by a street artist while we were on vacation in Turkey.• Now she added quick caricatures and portraits to her entertainments at Hunnewell parties.• The caricature is crude, but recognisable.• Yet all these caricatures are historically misplaced.• But whereas caricature depends on paring down character to exaggerated essentials, acting conveys shades, nuances and inconsistencies.

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caricature2 verb [transitive]  AVDESCRIBEto draw or describe someone or something in a way that makes them seem silly 把…画成漫画，用漫画表现[讽刺]；使滑稽化caricature somebody/something as something Scientists are often caricatured as absent-minded professors. 科学家常常被滑稽地描写成粗心大意的教授。→ See Verb table

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caricature• Many celebrity customers have been caricatured and hung on the restaurant's walls.• As such its history can be caricatured as having had three stages.• And we allowed ourselves to be caricatured by our opponents.• Economic gurus tend to think of themselves as hard scientists, while caricaturing educators as limp, at best.• It is less understandable when the union is caricatured in more seriously researched publications.• And even if there is a deal, Mr Clinton will try to caricature Republican reforms as monsters from the deep.Origin caricature1 (1700-1800) French Italian caricatura, from caricare “to load, make seem larger, worse, etc.”, from Late Latin carricare; → CHARGE2

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caricature

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car‧i‧ca‧ture¹ /ˈkærɪkətʃʊə $ -tʃʊr/ noun1. [countable] a funny drawing of someone that makes them look silly
    caricature of
    caricatures of politicians.
2. [countable] a description of someone or something that is only partly true and makes them seem silly
    caricature of
    The report presents a caricature of the true situation.
3. [uncountable] the activity of drawing or writing caricatures
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ picture shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like: a picture of a horse | He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died.
   ▪ drawing a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc: We had to do a drawing of a sunflower.
   ▪ sketch a picture that is drawn quickly: I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted.
   ▪ painting a picture made using paint: The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art. | Picasso did several paintings of her.
   ▪ portrait a picture of a person: The portrait was painted by Rembrandt.
   ▪ landscape a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains: Constable painted mainly landscapes.
   ▪ cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke: A cartoon in the New York Times showed the President talking to Osama Bin Laden.
   ▪ comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story: Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
   ▪ caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way: He is famous for his caricatures of politicans.
   ▪ illustration a picture in a book: The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour.
   ▪ poster a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration: old movie posters | There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall.
   ▪ print a picture that is usually produced on a printing press, and is one of a series of copies of the same picture: a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon
   ▪ image a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you: He produced some memorable images. | a beautiful image | Some of the images are deeply disturbing.
   ▪ artwork pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine: We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers.

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caricature² verb [transitive]
to draw or describe someone or something in a way that makes them seem silly
    caricature somebody/something as something
    Scientists are often caricatured as absent-minded professors.