satirise

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/ˈsæ.tɪ.ɹaɪz//ˈsæ.tə.ɹaɪz/

verb

Commonwealth standard spelling of satirize.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verbsatirise (third-person singular simple present satirises, present participle satirising, simple past and past participle satirised)

present singular third person satirises · participle present satirising · participle past satirised · past satirised

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of satirize.

    The singer was satirised during the episode Panic on the Streets of Springfield, which aired in the US on Sunday night.

    2021 April 20, Lucy Campbell and Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Morrissey hits back at The Simpsons over parody: ‘Complete ignorance’”, in The Guardian
    3 more examples

    Nor are his ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet Swiftian way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes now: […]

    1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel, volume 2

    For his novel, Saro-Wiwa draws on the figure of the ingenu in order to satirise the evils and pettiness of war from an apparently naïve perspective, which conceals the biting criticism that prevails throughout the narration.

    2003, Juan Francisco Elices Agudo, “The Role of the Ingenu in the Construction of a Postcolonial Anti-War Satire: Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy”, in Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez, María José López Couso, Patricia Fra López, Elena Seoane Posse, editors, Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002): A Commemorative Volume, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 565

    Audition…An almost unclassifiable masterpiece of J-horror and one of the very few movies in the genre in which the demonically violent protagonist is allowed to be a woman, satirising women’s position in Japanese society and cinema.

    2018 July 6, Peter Bradshaw, “The scariest horror films ever – ranked!”, in The Guardian

Synonyms & antonyms

verbridicule with satire

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

satirise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/satirise

MLA

“satirise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/satirise. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “satirise,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/satirise.

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