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Definition of starch verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

starch

verb
 
/stɑːtʃ/
 
/stɑːrtʃ/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they starch
 
/stɑːtʃ/
 
/stɑːrtʃ/
he / she / it starches
 
/ˈstɑːtʃɪz/
 
/ˈstɑːrtʃɪz/
past simple starched
 
/stɑːtʃt/
 
/stɑːrtʃt/
past participle starched
 
/stɑːtʃt/
 
/stɑːrtʃt/
-ing form starching
 
/ˈstɑːtʃɪŋ/
 
/ˈstɑːrtʃɪŋ/
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  1. starch something to make clothes, sheets, etc. stiff using starch
    • a starched white shirt
    Word OriginOld English (recorded only in the past participle sterced ‘stiffened’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sterken, German stärken ‘strengthen’, also to stark.
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