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A caricature is a drawing or description of someone that certain features - often to make people laugh, but sometimes to criticize or mock the person. Newspapers often use caricatures of politicians, making a big nose or a funny expression even bigger to make a point. As a verb, to caricature someone means to describe or draw them this way, often simplifying who they really are.
諷刺畫、漫畫式的誇張描繪；（動詞）以誇張手法描繪、醜化
組成This word probably comes from an Italian word meaning 'to load' or 'to exaggerate' - the idea of loading a picture with extra, exaggerated features.
同家族的字
- cargoprobably shares the same old root, related to the idea of loading something
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
caricaturenoun/ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/
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A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- Lo Ching-chong (羅慶忠), better known as L.C.C., showed off a caricature of Lu he did in 2001. In the black-and-white drawing, Lu sports a bird's nest-like hairdo, with a bird perched in it.
- Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.
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A grotesque misrepresentation.
- A grotesque caricature of virtue.
- Anything more appalling than this jumbled mass of the remains of a departed race I cannot imagine, and what made it even more dreadful was that in this dry air a considerable number of the bodies had simply become desiccated with the skin still on them, and now, fixed in every conceivable position, stared at us out of the mountain of white bones, grotesquely horrible caricatures of humanity.
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computingengineeringmathematicsIn facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
caricatureadj/ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/
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Having the characteristics of a caricature, grotesque.
- That singularly foolish old lady, her grandmother, got up a sort of caricature conspiracy, and Miss Churchill was to have been married to a coxcombical Jacobite, of the name of Trevanion; but he was arrested in the church, though he has since escaped by means of the jailor's daughter.
caricatureverb/ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/
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To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.
- Their faults grew suddenly perceptible, and their absurdities an unfailing subject of mimicry. All these, in his hands, became singularly amusing. Francesca, who had little knowledge, and no envy, of the individuals so relentlessly caricatured, could not help being entertained.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。