mercerize's Usage Examples:

Soft cotton -- These are not mercerized and are suitable for bold hand embroidery and tapestry work.

It also mercerizes very well.

Stranded cotton -- Six mercerized cotton thread strands are twisted loosely together.

A great amount of doubled and trebled yarn is now sold, though it does not appear that recent expansions have added much to doubling spindles, and considerable developments continue in the use of dyed and mercerized yarns.

Synonyms:

mercerise, process, treat,

Antonyms:

decrease, irreversible process, increase, devolution,