What is "elasticize"

Usage examples of "elasticize".

I tried again, folding the waistband so that it had an elasticized side against the hook as well as against the nut.

He disap-peared into another room only to come back quickly with a length of elasticized bandage.

The crawl suit was a one-piece camouflaged jumpsuit, which had padded knees, shoulders, and elbows, a wide elasticized waist, and elasticized arm and leg joints.

He had avoided the modern elasticized vorlage trousers and had chosen the more comfortable but old-fashioned type of ski-trouser in a smooth cloth.

A moment later, he emerged with a pair of lenses connected to a wide elasticized fabric band.

Irene gets out the glasses and I get out a pitcher with a light-blue shower cap elasticized around its top.

So it was several seconds before she realized that the elasticized waistband had gotten caught on the most prominent part of his lower anatomy.

She was lying quietly, her face covered with bulky eye patches secured with heavy elasticized tape.

Its walls were lined with elasticized tags and Velcro patches, and were covered by material to be returned from the Station, including blood and stool samples from the biomed program, and cuttings Kolya himself had made from the pea plants and fruit trees he had been attempting to grow.

The captain reached into an elasticized pocket beside his chair and pulled out a plastic bag.

The Colonel understood the expediency of elasticizing the codes of American law, but I question whether Nicholas Linnear would be able to do the same.

He said that it was ludicrous to entrust a study of such magnitude to a junior faculty member--never mind that it was my ideal He claimed I'd get the data all bollixed, or be taken in by the HutCs, ah, propensities for elasticizing the facts.