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ironed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Proivided with, or strengthened by, iron; shod with iron.
  2. (obsolete) Made of iron.
  3. That has been put in irons; shackled.
    • [T]he ironed convict, dragging his tree trunk to the summit edge of some beetling plateau, looks down upon a sea of fog, through which rise mountain-tops like islands […]. 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 96:
  4. That has been pressed or smoothed with a hot iron; pressed.
  5. (qualifier:Of hair) Treated as with a hair iron; curled with a curling iron, or straightened with a straightening-iron or with electric straighteners.

Forms

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most ironed Degree=Sup lexicographic
more ironed Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unironed

ironed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of iron
    form of iron