carnivalize

Verb

carnivalize (third-person singular simple present carnivalizes, present participle carnivalizing, simple past and past participle carnivalized)

1. (transitive) To subvert (mainstream assumptions or literary styles) through humour and chaos.
   • Gorenshtein carnivalizes Mother Russia herself and Ivanova carnivalizes love for Mother Russia.1995, Ellen E. Berry, Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic, page 47
   • The audience is then rapidly transported to the bizarre and excessively corporeal world of the forest people who, mostly misshapen, mute, and genetically deformed, nonetheless convey a tremendous vitality that carnivalizes classical form with formlessness.1998, Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: race, gender, and nation in contemporary Australian theatre