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i·ron·ize  (r-nz)
v. i·ron·ized, i·ron·iz·ing, i·ron·iz·es
v.tr.
To make ironic in effect: The actor ironized his performance of the speech.
v.intr.
To use irony.


ironize, ironise [ˈaɪrəˌnaɪz]
vb
1. (intr) to use or indulge in irony
2. (tr) to make ironic or use ironically
ironist  n
Translations
ironize
vtiironisieren


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Light was light, after all, and it could be literalized and ironized while still covertly holding onto its philosophical and spiritual connotations.
Perkell, 2001,39, suggests that the different lives and fares of Atistaeus and Orpheus express the poem's fundamental ambiguity: "power is ironized in the poem as pitiless, pity is ironized as useless.
The ritual has taken on a solemnity that has made it one of the few features of public religious display that are not mocked, parodied, or ironized regularly in the media.
 
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