Starch

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)  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

Derived terms

 * starchy
 * cornstarch

Verb

 * 1) To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
 * She starched her blouses.

Adjective

 * 1) Stiff; precise; rigid.

Verbs for Starch
apply—; convert—; dip into—; immerse in —; lose—; object to—; prepare—; remove —; store up—; —finishes; —galls; — hardens; —irritates; —stiffens.

Thesaurus
aggressiveness, albumen, bang, batter, bonnyclabber, butter, carbohydrate, clabber, cornstarch, cream, curd, dash, dough, drive, egg white, enterprise, fire, gaum, gel, gelatin, get-up-and-go, getup, ginger, glair, glop, glue, gluten, go, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, hydroxy aldehyde, hydroxy ketone, initiative, jam, jell, jelly, kick, loblolly, molasses, monosaccharide, mucilage, mucus, pap, paste, pep, pepper, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, polysaccharide, polysaccharose, poop, porridge, pudding, pulp, punch, puree, push, putty, rob, saccharide, semifluid, semiliquid, size, snap, soup, spunk, sticky mess, sugar, syrup, thrust, treacle, trisaccharide, verve, vim, vitality, zing, zip

Etymology
stearc:. See also stark:. Compare German stärke:.

Noun

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 * Japanese: デンプン,
 * Korean: 녹말
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 * Lithuanian: krakmolo
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 * Polish: skrobia
 * Portuguese:, fécula
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 * Croatian: uštogljenost
 * Finnish: jäykkyys


 * German: Steifheit
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Verb

 * Croatian: škrobiti
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Adjective

 * Croatian: uštogljeno
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Anagrams

 * charts
 * trachs