noun

1. a picture or imitation of a person, literary style, etc. in which certain features or mannerisms are exaggerated for satirical effect
2. the act or art of making such caricatures
3. a likeness or imitation that is so distorted or inferior as to seem ludicrous

Etymology: Fr < It caricatura, satirical picture, lit., an overloading < caricare, to load, exaggerate < VL carricare: see charge

transitive verb caricatured -·tured, caricaturing -·tur·ing