| iron out 
 
 1. settle or put right (Freq. 1)
 - we need to iron out our disagreements
 • Syn:
 straighten out, put right
 • Hypernyms:
 better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
 • Verb Frames:
 - Somebody ----s something
 2. press and smooth with a heated iron
 - press your shirts
 - 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:
 - Somebody ----s something
 - Something ----s something
 - They iron out the cape
 
 
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