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| Main Entry: |
enlarged
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increased |
| Synonyms: | added to, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, blown up, broadened, caricatured, developed, dilated, distended, elaborated, exaggerated, expanded, extended, filled out, inflated, intensified, lengthened, magnified, spread, stretched, swollen, tumid, turgid, widened |
| Antonyms: | contracted, reduced, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | ape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mimic |
| Synonyms: | affect, caricature, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do*, echo, emulate, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mirror, mock, parody, parrot, take off, travesty |
| Notes: | a monkey is a primate and not a type of ape, an ape is a primate and not a type of monkey, and a chimpanzee is a type of ape (so it's a primate but not a monkey) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | draw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create a likeness in a picture |
| Synonyms: | caricature, chart, compose, crayon, delineate, depict, describe, design, draft, engrave, etch, express, form, formulate, frame, graph, limn, map out, mark, model, outline, paint, pencil, portray, prepare, profile, sketch, trace, write |
| Main Entry: | exaggerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overstate, embellish |
| Synonyms: | amplify, blow out of proportion, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge, go to extremes, heighten, hike, hyperbolize, inflate, intensify, lay it on thick, lie, loud talk, magnify, make too much of, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pad, pretty up, puff, put on, pyramid, romance, romanticize, scam, stretch, up* |
| Antonyms: | depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be; do an impression of |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, be like, borrow, burlesque, carbon, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do likewise, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, forge, impersonate, look like, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, model after, parallel, parody, pattern after, personate, play a part, pretend, put on*, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, reproduce, resemble, send up, sham, simulate, spoof, take off, travesty |
| Notes: | emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks |
| Antonyms: | be original, clash, differ, oppose, reverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lampoon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ridicule, make fun of |
| Synonyms: | burlesque, caricature, jape, mock, parody, pasquinade, put on*, rail, roast, satirize, send up, squib, take off, travesty |
| Antonyms: | applaud, approve, praise, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | libel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | purposefully lie about someone |
| Synonyms: | asperse, bad-mouth, blister, burlesque, calumniate, caricature, crack, defame, denigrate, derogate, drag name through mud, give a black eye, knock, malign, mark wrong, mark*, revile, roast, scandalize, scorch, sizzle, slur, smear, tear down, traduce, travesty, vilify |
| Notes: | libel (from Latin libellus 'little book') must be published, while spoken defamatory remarks are slander; libel first meant 'document, written statement' slander is spoken defamation; libel is written or visual or broadcast defamation |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate, mock |
| Synonyms: | act, ape, burlesque, caricature, copy, copycat, ditto*, do, do like, echo, enact, fake, go like, impersonate, look like, make believe, make fun of, make like, mime, mirror, pantomime, parody, parrot, perform, personate, play, resemble, ridicule, sham, simulate, take off, travesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mock |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ridicule |
| Synonyms: | buffoon, burlesque, caricature, chaff, deride, flout, hoot, insult, jape, jeer, kid, laugh at, make fun of, needle, parody, poke fun at, rally, rib, scoff, scorn, show contempt, sneer, taunt, tease, thumb nose at, travesty |
| Antonyms: | flatter, praise |
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