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The correct spelling is starch.
How to pronounce starch
/stɑːtʃ/
nounIPA: /stɑːtʃ/
Say it like: Sta-rch
The correct spelling is starch. 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 powder… For example: "She starched her blouses."
Usage Examples
“She starched her blouses.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.(nutrition) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- 3.A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- 4.Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
verb
- 1.To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
adjective
- 1.Stiff; precise; rigid.
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