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shrinkageproof

shrinkageproof adjective: resistant to shrinkage.

Adjective

shrinkageproof (comparative more shrinkageproof, superlative most shrinkageproof)

  1. Resistant to shrinkage.
    • From the fireproof, shrinkageproof plywood house will come the intermittent buzz of the electric refrigerator keeping the farmer's frozen dessert hard till he comes in from the barn […]1938, United States. Forest Service, Martha Bensley Bruère, Taming Our Forests, page 84
    • The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has been investigating the possibility of making wool shrinkageproof by pregnating and coating fibers with plastics material such as methyl nethacrylate.1949, United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, World Trade in Commodities (volume 7, parts 1-8, page 13)

Forms of shrinkageproof

comparativemore shrinkageproof
superlativemost shrinkageproof

Origin of shrinkageproof

From shrinkage + -proof.

Questions about shrinkageproof

What does shrinkageproof mean?
Shrinkageproof means resistant to shrinkage.
What part of speech is shrinkageproof?
Shrinkageproof is an adjective.

Words near shrinkageproof in the dictionary

  1. shrink-wrapping
  2. shrink-wraps
  3. shrinkability
  4. shrinkable
  5. shrinkage
  6. shrinkageproof
  7. shrinkages
  8. shrinkband
  9. shrinke
  10. shrinked
  11. shrinkee

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