When You Satirize Something?

When you cleverly make fun of something, you satirize it. Political cartoons, for example, satirize current events and politicians using clever drawings and captions. When a writer criticizes something using humor, she satirizes it.

What does it mean to satirize something?

English Language Learners Definition of satirize

: to show that (someone or something) is foolish, weak, bad, etc., by using satire.

What is called satire?

Satire, artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, parody, caricature, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to inspire social reform.