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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mercerize.

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Examples

  • The chemical shrinks the area to which it is applied—mercerizing the area, in effect—and produces puckers.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Sometimes refers to cloth that is given a somewhat lustrous finish, for example, by mercerizing.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The chemical shrinks the area to which it is applied—mercerizing the area, in effect—and produces puckers.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The chemical shrinks the area to which it is applied—mercerizing the area, in effect—and produces puckers.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The chemical shrinks the area to which it is applied—mercerizing the area, in effect—and produces puckers.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Sometimes refers to cloth that is given a somewhat lustrous finish, for example, by mercerizing.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Sometimes refers to cloth that is given a somewhat lustrous finish, for example, by mercerizing.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Sometimes refers to cloth that is given a somewhat lustrous finish, for example, by mercerizing.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The business of the company is the mercerizing, gassing and bleaching of yarns for knitting of hosiery and underwear.

    Mill News. Vol. XXII, no. 16 (Oct. 14, 1920) No Author 1920

  • The American Processing Company is a new plant recently Completed Plant of the American Processing Company at Mt. Holly, N.C. completed for mercerizing, bleaching and gassing cotton yarns and is modern in every respect.

    Mill News. Vol. XXII, no. 16 (Oct. 14, 1920) No Author 1920

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