Starched is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STARCHED in dictionary:

VERB:
• STARCH, to stiffen a fabric
• stiffen (fabric or clothing) with starch
• (of a boxer) defeat (an opponent) by a knockout
NOUN:
• an odourless, tasteless white substance occurring widely in plant tissue and obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes. It is a polysaccharide which functions as a carbohydrate store and is an important constituent of the human diet.
• food containing starch
• powder or spray made from starch and used before ironing to stiffen fabric or clothing
• stiffness of manner or character
ADJECTIVE:
• Stiffened with starch.
• Stiff; precise; formal.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to treat with starch (a solid carbohydrate)

Words related to STARCHED

starch11 starchedly19 starches13 starching15

Words that contain STARCHED

starchedly19 unstarched16 starchedness18 starchednesses20

How to use STARCHED in a sentence

• There might be a dozen streets, principally crossing each other at right- angles, though sufficiently relieved from this precise delineation, to prevent a starched formality.
• Jack could hear her starched skirts rustle as she came toward him.
• Anyway, it was nice and cool, and freshly washed and ironed and starched, and Brighteyes looked just as pretty in it as a picture in a gold frame.
• She wore a gray skirt and a waist of white, with a severely starched collar about her throat, and a black bow tie.
• Day after day he endured the galling starched linen and unaccustomed clothing, making long journeys to the distant town to keep his wardrobe clean and replenished.
• She held up her black silk skirt, disclosing voluminous ruffles of starched embroidery, and waited for Rebecca.
• Never hang starched things out in freezing, damp, or windy weather.
• Above the starched ruffles rose her small dark head and white profile, and Nicholas could see the determined curve of her chin and the humorous tremor of her nostril.
• He was wearing a very high starched collar and a new suit of clothes.
• Church is also wherever you and your Auto-Comrade can elude the starched throng and fall together, if only for a moment, on your knees.
• But Miss Emily herself was as cool, as dainty and starched and fragile as ever.
• After a good rubbing he was so shiny that at a distance you might have thought him starched and ironed and newly come from the laundry.
• Flora went first, with a light little tilt of her starched skirts.
• Tams that in her fifty-eighth year she would accede to the honourable order of the starched white cap, Mrs.
• The young ladies who perform this office are clever women with pleasant voices and big, starched, white aprons.
• His shirt fronts were never sufficiently starched, nor his boots sufficiently polished.
• Richard had a pair of Turkish slippers, thread stockings, which fitted closely to his well-formed leg, and a shirt of fine material stiffly starched, in which he always slept.
• He had left off his usual picturesque peasant garb on this occasion, and was wearing a black cloth suit and a starched shirt which he had already crumpled.

Similar words containing STARCH without suffix ed

starch11 starchy15 starcher13 starches13 unstarch13 starchers14 starchier14 starchily17 starching15 cornstarch17 starchedly19 starchiest15 starchlike19 unstarched16 unstarches15 starchiness16 unstarching17 cornstarches19 starchedness18 starchinesses18 starchednesses20

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