Meaning

1 senses

  1. To treat (cotton fabric) with sodium hydroxide to make it more lustrous and accepting of dyes.

    merzerisieren

More definitions
  • treat to strengthen and improve the luster

Translations

3 languages
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By meaning 1
to treat cotton with NaOH:

Origin

From Mercer + -ize, named after John Mercer of Great Harwood, Lancashire, who invented the

From Mercer + -ize, named after John Mercer of Great Harwood, Lancashire, who invented the process in the mid-19th century.

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Forms

mercerizes, mercerizing, mercerized, mercerized
Base formmercerize · to mercerize
3rd person singularmercerizes
Present participlemercerizing
Past simplemercerized
Past participlemercerized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymercerize
he, she, itmercerizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmercerized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mercerized
he, she, ithas mercerized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mercerize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • treat to strengthen and improve the luster:mercerise

Word family

2 related words
Derivedmercerisationmercerizer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
meowmercenaryC2merchandiseB2merchantB1
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