unstarch

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ starch

Verb[edit]

unstarch (third-person singular simple present unstarches, present participle unstarching, simple past and past participle unstarched)

  1. (transitive) To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unstarch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)