Satirise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make a satire of; to mock. transitive

    "Nor are his ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet Swiftian way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes now: […]"

  2. 2
    ridicule with satire wordnet

Synonyms

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lampoonsatirizesatirizespoof

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"Nor are his ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet Swiftian way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes now: […]"

Etymology

From satire + -ise.

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