watertight
[waw-ter-tahyt, wot-er-]
adjective
constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
so devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade, or nullify: a watertight contract; a watertight alibi.
Origin of watertight
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perfect, sure, valid, proper, correct, true, airtight, short, uncomfortable, fast, impenetrable, resistant, invulnerable, inaccessible, immune, unmoved, unaffected, impassable, sound, realExamples from the Web for watertight
Historical Examples of watertight
Eight of the largest boilers are set in watertight compartments.
Before them was the watertight door, in which was set a large pane of quarsteel.
Under Arctic IceH.G. Winter
They are heavily built, with good beam and watertight compartments.
Life and sport in ChinaOliver G. Ready
We might as well make our roof as watertight as we can before dark.
Yorke The AdventurerLouis Becke
"The whole of the underbody of the outer envelope is watertight," he remarked.
The Dreadnought of the AirPercy F. Westerman
watertight
adjective
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