iron out

iron out
verb
1. settle or put right (Freq. 1)
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we need to iron out our disagreements

• Syn: ↑straighten out, ↑put right
• Hypernyms: ↑better, ↑improve, ↑amend, ↑ameliorate, ↑meliorate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

2. press and smooth with a heated iron
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press your shirts

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she stood there ironing

• Syn: ↑iron, ↑press
• Derivationally related forms: ↑iron (for: ↑iron), ↑ironing (for: ↑iron)
• Hypernyms: ↑press
• Hyponyms: ↑mangle
• Entailment: ↑heat, ↑heat up
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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They iron out the cape

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[verb]
settle, clear up, get rid of, put right, reconcile, resolve, smooth over, sort out, straighten out

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transitive verb
1.
a. : to make smooth or straight

ironed out the curves in the highway

ironing the crumpled paper out

b. : to make uniform

ironing out irregularities in the wage scale

2. : to make tolerable or harmonious by suppression or modification of extremes (as discordant views or aspirations, technical difficulties, or divergent theories)

conferences will iron out any conflicts of interest

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ˌiron ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they iron out he/she/it irons out present participle ironing out past tense ironed out past participle ironed out] phrasal verb
to deal successfully with a disagreement or problem, especially by removing the last remaining difficulties

They’re meeting in Berlin to iron out the final details of the contract.

Thesaurus: to successfully deal with a problem or difficultysynonym
Main entry: iron

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iron out [phrasal verb]
iron (something) out or iron out (something)
1 : to remove (wrinkles) in cloth by using a heated iron

She ironed the wrinkles out of the dress.

Do you think we can iron out the creases in those curtains?

2 a : to find a solution to (something) : to fix or correct (something)

It'll take us a while longer to iron out the wrinkles/kinks in the network. [=to fix the small problems in the network]

We haven't been able to iron out our differences.

They're trying to iron things out. [=work out their difficulties]

2 b : to reach an agreement about (something)

The final details of the contract still have to be ironed out.

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Main Entry: ↑iron

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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