Able
Elastic
Elastic adjective - Able to revert to original size and shape after being stretched, squeezed, or twisted.
Able and elastic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Able" instead an adjective "Elastic".
Nearby Words: elasticity, elasticated
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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They were also able to whip up a variety of nasty implements including a functional crossbow from items one could get in jail; like underwear elastic and newspaper.
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Luffy still has an elastic body regardless of whether he's in water or not, so he can have somebody else stretch his head outside of the water (he'll still be paralyzed, but he will then be able to breathe, at least).
Source: Super Drowning Skills -
From a site that sells approximations of Klein bottles: Non-metric topological manifolds may be considered ideal elastic objects, able to be bent, stretched, twisted, or deformed as long as nearby points in one space correspond to nearby points in the transformed version.
Source: Expospeak Gag
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