ironed

verb

past tense of iron
as in tied

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ironed
  1. tied
  2. trussed
  3. lashed
  4. bound
  5. secured
  6. hobbled
  7. pinioned
  8. hog-tied
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  • Citizen Bank Park’s 116 park factor for home runs since 2025 ranks tied for fourth.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator later determined the newborn died by homicide, finding that the child died from entrapment after being placed and tied inside a plastic trash bag beneath bloody paper towels and other garbage.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of tied
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  • Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.
    — Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Definition of trussed
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  • Beijing lashed out, restricting vital commerce and the flow of Chinese tourists on which Japan – the world’s fourth-largest economy – depends.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2026
  • Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the CNN White House correspondent, and her colleagues have defended her against him.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
Definition of lashed
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  • Near where the Loch empties into the Harlem Meer, a long-haired child, unaccompanied by an adult, bounded along the bank with a fly rod.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The area, which centers on Duvan Drive, is bounded by Harlem Avenue to the east, Metra Rock Island railroad to the south and 175th Street to the north.
    — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of bound
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  • Reigns secured the victory with three consecutive spears, marking his first singles win over Rollins without any interference.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This time, Velázquez aced the exam – scoring 94 out of 120 in what should have secured him a spot on the Communication and Journalism degree program offered at UNAM’s Aragón School of Higher Studies.
    — Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of secured
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  • Those movies are seen as part of an ongoing disempowering of the Haitian peoples, who have been continually hobbled by occupiers, imposed foreign debts and political instability.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026
  • With the newsroom hobbled, the British publication’s management allegedly deployed generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to suggest headlines and write descriptions of photos for people using screen readers.
    — Milad Jalalian Ebrahimi, The Conversation, 29 July 2026
Definition of hobbled
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  • To be clear, there is no sense that Rondón and Ugás are defending the old guard or suggesting that a docile, starving population pinioned under the grip of a dictatorship is big-picture preferable to a rebellious insurgency.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Definition of pinioned
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  • In fact, police questioned several other men in connection with the murder of Weaver, who was hog-tied, raped and strangled by her attacker, who then set a fire in her bedroom to cover his tracks, court papers state.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 15 May 2026
  • Most damning of all is that her body was found hog-tied in a conspicuously similar fashion as Reynolds’ previous presumptive victim, Bunny Davis.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
Definition of hog-tied
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