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shrinkageproof en · ADJ

Etymology

From shrinkage + -proof.

Meanings

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)

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