Synonyms for starch
stɑrtʃstarch

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1. starch, amylumnoun

   a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

   Synonyms:
   amylum

2. starchverb

   a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

   Synonyms:
   amylum

3. starchverb

   stiffen with starch

   "starch clothes"

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1. • Stiffen

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1. starchadjective

   Synonyms:
   stiff, STARCHED

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1. List of paraphrases for "starch":

   potato

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How to use starch in a sentence?

1. Paradi Mirmirani:

   Dry shampoos use powder, starch, or talc to soak up oil, and none of those ingredients directly impact the ability of follicles to grow new hair.

2. Alessio Fasano:

   Something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

3. Trey Nickels:

   We knew black-eyed peas were loaded with the starch necessary to make the fermented mash that can be distilled into liquor, we just needed to prove it.

4. E. M. Forster:

   Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

5. Shelley Aggarwal:

   Food is so much more than protein, starch, and vitamins and minerals, yet many people struggle to have fun with food.