mercerize (English, verb)
expansion: mercerize (third-person singular simple present mercerizes, present participle mercerizing, simple past and past participle mercerized)
Senses:
glosses: To treat (cotton fabric) with sodium hydroxide to make it more lustrous and accepting of dyes.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: mercerizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mercerizing
tags: participle
present
form: mercerized
tags: participle
past
form: mercerized
tags: past
form: mercerise
tags: alternative