starch
Other forms: starched; starching
Starch is the stuff that makes your shirt collar look crisp and fresh. It's also the complex carbohydrate that potatoes and rice — foods that are called starches — have lots of.
Starch can also be a verb. You can starch your shirt by adding starch, which is a white powder, to the rinse water. You can also get the kind of starch that comes as a spray, which you squirt on your shirt while you're ironing it. Cornstarch, which is also a white powder, is used to thicken sauces or make egg whites stand in stiff peaks when you beat them.
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a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textilessynonyms: amylumtypes:arumstarch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint rootcassava, cassava starch, manioc, maniocaa starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropicsarrowroota nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plantsagopowdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffeneramyloida non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starchpearl sagosago ground into small round grainstype of:polyose, polysaccharideany of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules
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a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
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stiffen with starch“starch clothes”type of:stiffenmake stiff or stiffer
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