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ironed

verb

past tense of iron
as in tied

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  1. tied
  2. trussed
  3. lashed
  4. bound
  5. secured
  6. hobbled
  7. pinioned
  8. hog-tied
Verb
  • The game was tied with two outs in the third when Arenado's 22nd home run of the season put the Diamondbacks on top 3-1.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The Royals quickly tied the game in the bottom of the first inning.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of tied
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Every night, after Jesus died on the cross, my apostles gently helped me down from the chain-link fence to which I had been lashed.
    — Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
  • After the two additional deaths were reported this week, Shapiro again lashed out at Kennedy.
    — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of lashed
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  • An advisory remains in place for an area roughly bounded by Las Palomas Drive on the west and West Skyline Drive on the east.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of bound
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  • That outlay has brought Marc Cucurella, Robert Sanchez, Moises Caicedo and Joao Pedro to Stamford Bridge, while their latest arrival from the south-coast side, centre-forward Danny Welbeck, was secured for a much more modest £5m this summer.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • In the weeks leading up to the first Super Bowl at SoFi, there were misguided rumblings that the game might be moved to Dallas, because the NFL had secured that city as a backup.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of secured
Verb
  • With oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz hobbled by war, China is betting on Egypt’s Suez Canal and diplomatic clout to anchor its wider push across the Arab and African worlds.
    — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • However, when one of the three women feels guilty about snubbing their lifelong pal, Mel shows up and suddenly the weekend turns to complete chaos, tempting the trio to break free from the madness that has hobbled their friend group for years.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of hobbled
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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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“Ironed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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