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/ |
- 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.Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
starch