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n. A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder.

n. Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering.

n. Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes.

n. Stiff behavior.

n. Vigor; mettle: "Business travel can take the starch out of the most self-assured corporate titan” ( Lisa Faye Kaplan).

v. To stiffen with 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.

n. Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

n. A stiff, formal manner; formality.

n. Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

v. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

adj. Stiff; precise; rigid.

adj. Stiff; precise; rigid.

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.

n. Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

v. To stiffen with starch.

Strong; hard; tough.

Rigid; hence, precise.

n. A proximate principle of plants, having the formula C6H10O5. or a multiple of that formula.

n. A preparation of commercial starch with boiling (or less frequently cold) water, used in the laundry or factory for stiffening linen or cotton fabrics before ironing.

n. A stiff, formal manner; starchedness.

To stiffen with starch.

n. 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

v. stiffen with starch

n. a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

"You can also get them with potatoes, but I tend to not add those since starch within starch is just a bit much."

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starched    starching    cornstarch    starchy   

stiff    precise    rigid    formality    fastidious    formal   

March    arch    demarche    larch    march    parch   

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