iron out
verb
ironed out; ironing out; irons out
transitive verb
1
: to make smooth or flat by or as if by pressing
2
: to resolve or work out a solution to
ironed out their differences
Word History
First Known Use
1753, in the meaning defined at sense 1
iron out
verb
as in to straighten (out)
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- straighten (out)
- figure out
- reason
- clear (up)
- judge
- infer
- deduce
- untie
- work out
- divine
- untangle
- unscramble
- decide
- guess
- presume
- gather
- conclude
- speculate
- assume
- conjecture
- work
- solve
- answer
- dope (out)
- resolve
- puzzle (out)
- crack
- unravel
- riddle (out)
- unriddle
- decipher
- decode
- break