Iron and Modify

Iron

Iron verb - Press and smooth with a heated iron.

Modify and iron are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Modify" instead a verb "Iron".

Nearby Words: ironing, ironed, ironware, ironwork

Modify

Modify verb - To limit the meaning of (as a noun).

Iron and modify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Iron" instead a verb "Modify".

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Metro 2033 While the AK-74's rear iron sight in real life does not look like the one on the Kalash unless you modify the hell out of it first, the sight alignment and picture are otherwise correct.
  • Comic Book / X-Wing Series Also in Iron Fist, Allston had to modify Warlord Zsinj's personality in The Courtship of Princess Leia of being a generic frothing-at-the-mouth-when-things-go-bad Imperial into a character with actual panache that could pull off victory after victory against the New Republic for novels at a time.
  • Some games modify this by giving you limited numbers of saves (similar to Video Game Lives but perhaps allowing some strategy), bonuses for low numbers of saves, or immediately erasing/saving a game whenever you die or do something important (Iron Man mode).
    Source: Save Scumming
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