A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. The art of creating such representations. A grotesque imitation or misrepresentation: The trial was a caricature of justice. To represent or imitate in an exaggerated, distorted manner.
French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare, to load, exaggerate, from Late Latin carricre, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon. See kers- in Indo-European Roots.
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