The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of burlesque English)
Usage examples of "burlesquing".
His boasts were always uttered with a wan, lack-lustre irony, as if he were burlesquing the conventional Western brag and enjoying the mystifications of his listener, whose feeble sense of humor often failed to seize his intention, and to whom any depreciation of New England was naturally unintelligible.
At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.
And Mary walked among them, burlesquing the considerate hostess, saying outrageous things to them.
Aiffe widened her strange eyes, attempting or burlesquing seductiveness, and Farrell found that he could not look away from her.
As for mysteries, visitations—” And here she drew her mouth impossibly down until she looked like Winston Churchill burlesquing the Mask of Tragedy.
Might it then be argued that I would naturally favor any story burlesquing Christianity?
Sir Meeson Corby had intimations of the disintegration of his country if a patent tramp burlesquing in those clothes could be permitted to amuse English ladies of high station, quite at home with them.