travest UK /ˈtræv.ɪst/US /ˈtræ.vəst/ verb1 •To travesty; to disguise; to parody; to demean.I have not much endeavour'd to make any discoveries of it, and it is a hard matter to give any account thereof, without some hazard of travesting History into Romance. — 1678 formstravested · travesting · travests