All 4 Uses

satire
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Nine Stories
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He said he was mostly interested in the satiric rather than the arty side of painting.†
Story 8 *
It satirized the familiar, everyday tragedy of a chaste young girl, with belowshoulder-length blond hair and udder-size breasts, being criminally assaulted in church, in the very shadow of the altar, by her minister.†
Story 8

standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
Actually, I was much less struck by the satiric implications of the picture than I was by the quality of workmanship that had gone into it.†
Story 8
I almost begged R. Howard Ridgefield to give up his satire for a while.†
Story 8

Definitions:

(1) (satire as in: wrote a satire)
a way of making fun of people or ideas -- often through exaggeration
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses mocking humor -- often through exaggeration