iron out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
settle or put right
we need to iron out our disagreements
Types & categories
- improve hypernym
Sense 2 verb
press and smooth with a heated iron
press your shirts
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- ironing derivation
- smoothing iron derivation
- ironing derivation
- heat entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | improve |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ironing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | smoothing iron |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ironing |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | heat |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | press |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | mangle |