CARICATURE

I. noun Etymology: Italian caricatura, literally, act of loading, from caricare to load, from Late Latin carricare Date: 1712 exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics, a representation especially in literature or art that has the qualities of ~, a distortion so gross as to seem like ~, caricatural adjective caricaturist noun Synonyms: see: ~ II. transitive verb (-tured; -turing) Date: circa 1771 to make or draw a ~ of ; represent in ~