ironize

English

Etymology

irony +‎ -ize

Verb

ironize (third-person singular simple present ironizes, present participle ironizing, simple past and past participle ironized)

1. (intransitive) To use irony
2. (transitive) To treat something in an ironic fashion
   • 2007 December 30, Lee Siegel, “The Blush of the New”, in New York Times^[1]:

     His novels mocked and maligned the French middle class, ironizing it into oblivion.

Anagrams

• ionizer