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satirize

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++sat·ir·ize (also satirise British English) /ˈsætəraɪz/ verb [transitive]  MAKE FUN OFto use satire to make people see someone’s or something’s faults 讽刺 a play satirizing the fashion industry 一部讽刺时装业的戏剧→ See Verb table
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satirizeThese 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.
sat·ir·ize verbChineseSyllable
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satirize
satirize (also satirise British English) /ˈsætəraɪz, ˈsætɪraɪz/ verb [transitive]
to use satire to make people see someone’s or something’s faults:
    a play satirizing the fashion industry


sat·ir·ize (BrE also sat·ir·ise) BrE /ˈsætəraɪz/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsætəraɪz/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they satirize BrE /ˈsætəraɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsætəraɪz/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it satirizes BrE /ˈsætəraɪzɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsætəraɪzɪz/ 🔊past simple satirized BrE /ˈsætəraɪzd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsætəraɪzd/ 🔊past participle satirized BrE /ˈsætəraɪzd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsætəraɪzd/ 🔊 -ing form satirizing BrE /ˈsætəraɪzɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsætəraɪzɪŋ/ 🔊~ sb/sth to use satire to show the faults in a person, an organization, a system, etc. 讽刺;讥讽