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.Definitions on the go
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