Word familyadjectivesatiricadverbsatiricallynounsatiricalnesssatiristsatirizationsatireverbsatirize
sat·ir·ize (also satirise British English) /ˈsætəraɪz/ verb [transitiveT]
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
Examples from the Corpus
satirize• These 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 satirizessmall-townpolitics.• Melville uses this chapter to satirize the Quakers.• Yet the scholarly energy which reinvigorated abstractconcepts of political function was identical with that which satirized them.