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# caricature

«caricature» in Mova's school dictionary: **A funny drawing of a person that makes some features…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a caricature, caricatures); verb (caricature, caricatures, caricatured, caricaturing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A funny drawing of a person that makes some features, like a big nose or ears, look much bigger than they are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#m1)

2) A description of a person or thing that makes them seem silly by exaggerating them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#m2)

3) (verb) To draw or describe someone in this exaggerated way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons pupils draw caricatures; in history and media lessons political cartoons use caricature to make a point. In stories it can mean a character who is too simple, like a cartoon. Phrases: "a caricature of", "draw a caricature".

### examples

- An artist at the fair drew a caricature of me with huge teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#x1)
- The newspaper cartoon was a caricature of the prime minister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#x2)
- In the film, the villain is a caricature, not a real person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#x3)
- We caricatured our teacher's big smile, kindly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#x4)
- The caricature made the king's crown enormous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/#x5)

### note

Pronounced "KARR-ik-a-chur". A caricature exaggerates on purpose; it should not be used to bully people about their looks.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caricature» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caricature/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.