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What is the verb for ironic?

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iron
  1. (transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
  3. (transitive) To furnish or arm with iron.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I did not have to iron the sheets until the day before Harriet's parents were to show up.”
ironize
  1. (intransitive) To use irony
  2. (transitive) To treat something in an ironic fashion
  3. Examples:
    1. “To what extent do these images ironize and thereby repudiate such representations?”
      “With the aid of Bakhtin, we can see a number of distinct discourses which subvert and ironize each other.”
      “Owenson appears to ironize, even undermine, her main vehicle for explaining Ireland.”
irons
ironise
  1. Alternative spelling of ironize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Here, the line does not attempt to ironise the compositional process or isolate the creative act of the poem in a self-conscious space.”
ironing
ironises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ironise
ironizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ironize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Utilizing photography and video, my work documents and ironizes the ubiquity of American, media culture.”
      “At the same time, the news text ironizes the local government for hypocrisy towards the central government.”
      “In this way, the poem both enacts and ironizes the solace of authentication.”
ironized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ironize
ironised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ironise
ironed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of iron
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Even so, it took time and collaboration, and intellectual modesty, to get all the kinks ironed out.”
      “We lay fully clothed on adjacent mattresses while laughing tribeswomen ironed every kink out of our puffy Western bodies.”
      “Even a pair of jeans and a cotton shirt looks elegant and cool if it is clean and well ironed.”
ironizing
  1. present participle of ironize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Levy's mourning involves a considered ironizing of the conditions both of sympathy and rationality.”
      “In the films, he takes on the adventure novel, placing extraordinary people in extraordinary situations, and ironizing those structures in playfully dubious manners.”
      “His novels mocked and maligned the French middle class, ironizing it into oblivion.”
ironising
  1. present participle of ironise
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