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shrinkageproof

adj

Etymology

From shrinkage + -proof.

  1. inherited from *skrinkwaną✻
  2. inherited from sċrincan
  3. inherited from schrynken
  4. suffixed as shrinkage — “shrink + age”
  5. suffixed as shrinkageproof — “shrinkage + proof”

Definitions

  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 […]
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA