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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024starch /stɑrtʃ/USA pronunciation n. - a white, tasteless chemical substance in plants, forming an important component of rice, corn, wheat, and many other vegetable foods: [uncountable]a food rich in starch.[countable]There are several different starches in that food.
- [uncountable] a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
- starches, [plural] foods rich in natural starch:not enough starches in his diet.
v. [~ + object] - to stiffen or treat with starch:to starch the shirts at the cleaners.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024starch (stärch),USA pronunciation n. - a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
- starches, foods rich in natural starch.
- stiffness or formality, as of manner:He is so full of starch he can't relax.
- Informal Termsvigor;
energy;
stamina;
boldness.
v.t. - to stiffen or treat with starch.
- to make stiff or rigidly formal (sometimes fol. by up).
- 1375–1425; (verb, verbal) late Middle English sterchen origin, originally, to stiffen, Old English stercean to make stiff, strengthen, derivative of stearc stark; cognate with German stärken to strengthen; (noun, nominal) late Middle English starch(e), sterche, derivative of the verb, verbal
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