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wa•ter•tight



Pronunciation: (wô'tur-tīt", wot'ur-), [key]
—adj.
1. constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
2. so devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade, or nullify: a watertight contract; a watertight alibi.

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