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mercerize

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

Verb

mercerize (third-person singular simple present mercerizes, present participle mercerizing, simple past and past participle mercerized)

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

mercerize meaning in Tamil

mercerize in Tamil

துணி பக்குவமாக்குதல்

Forms of mercerize

third-person singular presentmercerizes
present participlemercerizing
past participlemercerized
pastmercerized
alternative formmercerise

Origin of mercerize

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

Words formed from mercerize

Questions about mercerize

What does mercerize mean?
Mercerize means to treat (cotton fabric) with sodium hydroxide to make it more lustrous and accepting of dyes.
What is mercerize in Tamil?
Mercerize in Tamil is துணி பக்குவமாக்குதல். See Mercerize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mercerize?
Mercerize is a verb.
What is the past tense of mercerize?
The past tense of mercerize is mercerized.

Words near mercerize in the dictionary

  1. merceriser
  2. mercerises
  3. mercerising
  4. mercerization
  5. mercerizations
  6. mercerize
  7. mercerized
  8. mercerizer
  9. mercerizers
  10. mercerizes
  11. mercerizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mercerize (page history and authors); mercerize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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