noun
1. a depiction, in a drawing or verbal description, that deliberately exaggerates or distorts some features of the person or thing represented to produce a comic or grotesque appearance.
The actress was insulted by the wild-haired, bug-eyed caricature of her in the magazine.
His caricatures have made him famous as a political commentator.
2. the art or process of creating such depictions.
His talent did not lie in painting portraits, but he was brilliant at caricature.
3. an absurdly inferior imitation or copy.
That evil man is a caricature of a religious leader.
transitive verb
to make a caricature of.
The author caricatured members of the nobility in all his novels.
The cartoon caricatured the mayor in a comical way.