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Meaning of 'starch' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Starch [ a.]
- Stiff; precise; rigid.
2 . Starch [ n.]
- A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
- Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
3 . Starch [ v. t.]
- To stiffen with starch.

Meaning of 'starch' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . starch [ v]
Meaning (1):
- stiffen with starch
Example in sentence:
  • starch clothes

Nearby Words:

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