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starch   (TTS Sound)

The noun starch has 2 senses

• starch, amylum -- (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 textiles)


• starch -- (a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering)

The verb starch has 1 sense

• starch -- (stiffen with starch; "starch clothes")