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单词 to iron out
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to iron out
to iron out
1. transitive. To remove creases from (fabric, clothing, etc.) by ironing. Chiefly figurative: to make smooth, flat, or homogeneous; to refine.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > press or force down > make smooth by pressing down
smooth1688
to iron out1753
1753 in L. Howard Coll. Lett. from Orig. MSS Let. to Compiler p. iii Sir Harry's Writings are like Ladies fine Laces which have been laid by..; but they may be sprinkled, smooth'd, and iron'd out by some modern Genius.
1790 D. Morison Poems 148 When tightly plet and brawly iron'd out, They'll gar him look again I hae nae doubt.
1839 F. Trollope in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 159/2 Betty..had learned to iron out tumbled dresses.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table (1865) ii. 15 Ironing out crumpled paragraphs, starching limp ones.
1949 F. Swinnerton Doctor's Wife comes to Stay vii. 80 Roly..had married a widow with children,..and been—in the cliché of the day—‘ironed out’.
1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 23 July a2/2 An increasingly homogenized country—a country that has been ironed out.
2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Sept. 129/1 Pelaccio and his chef de cuisine were ironing out recipes for chili crab.
2. transitive. To remove (creases or wrinkles) from fabric by ironing. Chiefly figurative: to remove (something, esp. a problem or imperfection); to resolve.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > resolve (difficulties)
smooth1611
smootha1616
to iron out1880
sort1948
1827 M. Corbett & M. Corbett Busy-bodies III. xxi. 292 The child..actually refused to allow the creases to be ironed out of her frock to-day.
1850 Blackburn Standard 3 July His countenance was illuminated..by those smiles which ever characterized it, until they were ironed out by the speech of Mr. B. Osborne.
1880 Churchman's Compan. Apr. 316 Ironing out any difficulties of position or circumstance with the weight of our imperative oratory.
1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 31 Mar. 8 The differences between Chairman Flaherty..and Col. William A. Gaston are in a fair way to be amicably ironed out.
1971 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 29/5 Like the great horseman he is, he patiently ironed out the kinks in plenty of time to catch Hush Money on the flat.
1971 Guardian 1 Nov. 6/4 The new computer was delivered..last week... Ironing out the bugs will probably take until the new year.
2006 R. Everett Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins xiv. 136 Hollywood inevitably irons out the wrinkles in an actor's psyche.
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