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starch

noun
🔊/stɑːtʃ/
🔊/stɑːrtʃ/
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  1. [uncountable, countable] a white carbohydrate food substance found in potatoes, flour, rice, etc.; food containing this淀粉；含淀粉的食物
    • There's too much starch in your diet.你的日常饮食中淀粉含量太高。🔊🔊
    • You need to cut down on starches.你得少吃些含淀粉的东西。🔊🔊
    Topics Biologyc2
  2. [uncountable] starch prepared in powder form or as a spray and used for making clothes, sheets, etc. stiff（浆衣服、床单等用的）淀粉浆
    • Spray starch on the shirt collars before ironing them.熨衬衫领要先喷些粉浆再熨。
    3. Word OriginOld English (recorded only in the past participle sterced ‘stiffened’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sterken, German stärken ‘strengthen’, also to stark.

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/
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  1. starch something to make clothes, sheets, etc. stiff using starch把（衣服、床单等）浆一浆
    • a starched white shirt浆过的白衬衫
    Word OriginOld English (recorded only in the past participle sterced ‘stiffened’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sterken, German stärken ‘strengthen’, also to stark.