steelman (English, verb)
expansion: steelman (third-person singular simple present steelmans, present participle steelmanning, simple past and past participle steelmanned)
Senses:
glosses: To repair flaws in an argument before analyzing it critically; to refute or to weaken the force of a stronger version of an argument than what was actually given.
Forms:
form: steelmans
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steelmanning
tags: participle
present
form: steelmanned
tags: participle
past
form: steelmanned
tags: past
form: steel-man
tags: alternative