Usually means: Treat cotton with sodium hydroxide.
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  1. mercerize: Merriam-Webster
  2. mercerize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mercerize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mercerize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mercerize: Vocabulary.com
  6. mercerize: Wordnik
  7. mercerize: Wiktionary
  8. mercerize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mercerize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mercerize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mercerize, mercerize: Dictionary.com
  12. Mercerize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. mercerize: Rhymezone
  14. mercerize: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mercerize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. mercerize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mercerize: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To treat (cotton fabric) with sodium hydroxide to make it more lustrous and accepting of dyes.

Similar:
mercurize, mercurialize, mercurialise, ennoble, peroxidize, mercurify, cottonize, nitrogenize, nitrify, resinize, more...

Opposite:
demercerize, unmercerize, deglaze

Types:
treat, process, finish, prepare, more...

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Similar:
mercurize, mercurialize, mercurialise, ennoble, peroxidize, mercurify, cottonize, nitrogenize, nitrify, resinize, more...

Opposite:
demercerize, unmercerize, deglaze

Types:
treat, process, finish, prepare, more...



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