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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of iron.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron

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Examples

  • Under the terms ironed out late Sunday, the government would give AIG more money, including $40 billion from the U.S.

    U.S. Throws New Lifeline to AIG, 2008

  • Under the terms ironed out late Sunday, the government would give AIG more money, including $40 billion from the U.S. Treasury's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

    News stories from Finfacts Ireland Sept-Dec 2004 2009

  • Basically, wearing team colours or having the university name ironed onto the back/lapel of the shirts.

    Go Pats! 2007

  • "Under the terms ironed out late Sunday, the government would give AIG more money, including $40 billion from the U.S.

    Political Animal 2008

  • Apparently, the shirt can be "ironed" with a hair-dryer and rolls up its own sleeves when it gets hot.

    Boing Boing: July 22, 2001 - July 28, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Annie now plunged these in the wash basin's scanty suds, washed them, and, going to the mirror, pasted them against the glass, flattening them out so that in the morning they might be "ironed," as she called it.

    The Sagebrusher A Story of the West Emerson Hough 1890

  • I "ironed" the first farm-wagons, the first two-seated spring-wagon, and the first buggy made at Tuskegee.

    Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885

  • The whole thing is then "ironed" with a giant heated press, causing the colors on the paper to sublimate into the fabric.

    PezCyclingNews.com 2009

  • In my mind, I had pictured a Medusa, a pox-ridden hag with missing teeth and long, dirty fingernails crawling with worms, yet standing before us was a woman who looked proper and stately, hair in a bun, apron neatly ironed, nails trim and pink.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • After dinner on Tuesdays, Aunt Clara and I folded and ironed clothes.

    Raven V.C Andrews 2011

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