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iron

2 verb
     
Related topics: Clothes, Technology
iron2 S3 [transitive]
DCCT to make clothes smooth using an iron [= press]:
Have you ironed my shirt?

iron something ↔ out

phrasal verb
to solve or get rid of problems or difficulties, especially small ones:
We need to iron out a few problems first.
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