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1 | 99% | 6 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 37% | 10 | With excessive stiffness or formality | |
3 | 37% | 9 | With excessive stiffness or formality | |
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We think the answer is "STARCH" which means:
- noun
- • 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
- • A commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering verb
- • Stiffen with starch adjective
- • Stiff; precise; rigid.
An example sentence would be:
- • "I need to buy some starch for my laundry."
- • "Potatoes are high in starch."
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