hermetically
[hur-met-ik-lee]
- so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
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Origin of hermetically
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Examples from the Web for hermetically
Contemporary Examples
For JPMorgan Chase, the Bernie Madoff stench can no longer be hermetically sealed.
Then quite suddenly, the hermetically sealed bubble around Castro was punctured.
The debates certainly would never have been this hermetically sealed and antiseptic.
Historical Examples
The atmosphere was getting dense, for every opening was hermetically sealed.
The Field of IceJules Verne
I was almost like a boiler, filled with steam and hermetically sealed.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.Guy de Maupassant
I was almost like a boiler filled with steam and hermetically sealed.
Original Short Stories, Volume 9 (of 13)Guy de Maupassant
The tanks leak, and they are not hermetically sealed in their compartment.
The Cruise of the SnarkJack London
His house in the park is hermetically sealed, ready for him.
The Letters of Charles DickensCharles Dickens
Word Origin and History for hermetically
adv.
c.1600; see hermetic.
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