satirize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb ridicule with satire
    lampoon; satirise.
    • The writer satirized the politician's proposal

WordNet

Sat"ir*ize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. satiriser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Satirized ; present participle & verbal noun Satirizing
Definitions
  1. To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
    It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift.

Webster 1913