I. noun
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Starches such as potatoes are a necessary part of most good diets.
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At this stage the fruit is hard and one quarter starch .
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Baked stuffed potatoes are an indulgent starch .
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Easy-cook rice is par-boiled to remove the surface starch that causes the problems when cooking other long grain rices.
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The starch in her collar had gone limp with the soaking.
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They are preferable to many sauces traditionally thickened with roux or other starches.
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What I wan na do is load this kid up with all the starch he can take.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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shirt
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Bright blood was splattered across the chest of his starched white shirt as though it had been shaken out of a mop.
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She starched his shirts , shined his shoes, and kept lint off his suits.
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Kathy was there, and Tony Carbo, and a happy-looking assembly of dignitaries in pin-stripes and starched blue shirts .
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She shook out an-other damp starched shirt .
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These shirts need to be starched and ironed.
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An older woman whose hair and dress were folded and starched leading a younger woman flushed with inexpert embarrassment.
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His shirt was so white that it must have been starched.
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It advertised a character of fastidious and correct nature, some one whose collars would be uncomfortably starched.