Hypertext Webster Gateway: "burlesquing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Burlesque \Bur*lesque"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burlesqued}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Burlesquing}.]
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation
in action or in language.

They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and
turned the expression he used into ridicule.
--Stillingfleet.


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