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plasticize

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make something more plastic, especially by adding a plasticizer 2 (context intransitive English) To become more plastic vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make something more plastic, especially by adding a plasticizer 2 (context intransitive English) To become more plastic

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plasticize
  1. v. become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added [syn: plasticise]

  2. make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer; "plasticized PVC" [syn: plasticise]

Usage examples of "plasticize".

Both of the packages were festooned with brilliantly colored, glossy, self-stick, plasticized GODS labels.

It was a basic Scout version of the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, flat Army green, stripped of its plasticized canvas doors and roof.

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

I took out my wallet, slipped out the plasticized photostat of my license and put it in front of him on the desk.

The credit cards and plasticized driving license presented a problem, but Khalil managed to bend and break them all, and let them fall out the window.

This isn't a shiny, plasticized, standard unit allied with a nationwide chain, but a mom-and-pop operation in a slightly sagging clapboard building with weathered white paint and dust-frosted windows.

Two more plasticized plaques, granted by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, attested to Chip’s excellence in graduate teaching.