iron out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: irons out
form: ironing out
form: ironed out
form: ironed out
Senses: examples: text: That shirt still has a few more wrinkles to iron out.
glosses: To remove (a crease or creases) with an iron.
examples: text: Dilatation of this type “irons out the folds” of the urethra, giving better drainage of the paraurethral glands, stimulating circulation and promoting rapid healing, especially when small doses (7½ gr. q.i.d.) of one of the triple-sulfonamides are given as an adjunct.
ref: 1951 January, Gordon W. Reynolds, “The Female Urethra and Chronic Urethritis”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 1, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 34:
glosses: To make (something) flat or smooth as if with an iron.
examples: text: Let's just sit down and iron out an agreement on this issue.
text: We need to iron out the wrinkles in the plan before implementing it.
text: Since this involves 11 of the main pre-grouping companies, it will doubtless take a good deal of time and patience to iron out all the anomalies, but at least it will simplify many procedures and help to weld the Line into a single efficient unit.
ref: 1964 November, P. F. Winding, “Re-shaping the LMR's North Western Line - 2”, in Modern Railways, page 346:
text: The latest in a series of software updates was introduced in late 2021, as Alstom and Crossrail work to iron out any final bugs from the train systems before they start operating through the core tunnels under central London.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Crossrail takes delivery of final Class 345”, in RAIL, number 948, page 16:
glosses: To resolve (a dispute); to solve (a problem).
examples: text: It was a WhatsApp message saying, 'do you want to fight Christmas time/December? Exhibition, who ever you want'. […] Of course I would [fight a YouTuber] - especially Jake Paul! I'd iron him out. He wouldn't fight me though, would he?
ref: 2023 July 25, Jack Evanoff, quoting Carl Froch, “"Iron him out" - Former champion reveals talks about potential fight with Jake Paul”, in Sportskeeda:
glosses: To thrash or beat up; to overwhelm in a fight.
examples: text: ‘I’ll f***king run out of the crowd with a f***king pillowcase, put it over his nut and just suffocate him.[’] […] He explained: ‘I think that’s the move because no-one’s going to iron him out and he needs to go don’t he, this geezer?[’]
ref: 2023 June 27, Lucy Norris, “Danny Dyer vows to ‘kill Putin’ and explains how we would do it in explosive rant”, in Metro:
synonyms: word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
glosses: To kill.