Synonyms of sends up

sends up

verb

present tense third-person singular of send up

as in parodies

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of

the sitcom sends up the "trials and tribulations" of the rich and famous

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parodies
• imitates
• mocks
• does
• mimics
• spoofs
• caricatures
• plays
• burlesques
• travesties
• reproduces
• emulates
• plays up
• performs
• simulates
• ridicules
• puts on
• satirizes
• pretends
• derides
• lampoons
• replicates
• enhances
• stretches
• duplicates
• dissembles
• monkeys
• parrots
• acts
• overdraws
• apes
• personates
• feigns
• elaborates
• pasquinades
• exaggerates
• fleshes (out)
• expands
• embellishes
• pads
• enlarges (on or upon)
• amplifies
• embroiders
• gibes
• shams
• counterfeits
• magnifies
• mimes
• pantomimes
• fakes
• overstates
• impersonates
• copycats

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sends up

The National Weather Service sends up hundreds of balloons every day, to monitor conditions in the atmosphere and keep track of how weather patterns are changing. — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 27 May 2026

With Teutonic deadpan, Sander sends up the often ideologically weighted social photography of which his project is an example—and records the giddy, glitchy instability of the Weimar years, when the old order was in disorienting flux, and would soon disappear altogether. — Max Norman, New Yorker, 21 May 2026

This low-mounding shade perennial sends up taller, slender stems with airy flower clusters, and the groundcover spreads by slowly creeping rhizomes. — Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026

This perennial sends up spikes of blue or lavender flowers in a spreading form. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026

Butterfly bush sends up long flower spikes that draw both hummingbirds and bees, offering kids a chance to compare how different pollinators feed. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026

Written, produced, and starring Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero as two sisters jockeying haplessly for status within Newport society, Another Period sends up every costume-drama trope in the book. — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025