had starched

• past perfect

  past perfect

  Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.

  of starch.
  starch

  noun

  a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O5 ) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.

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had starched

I had starched and ironed it before I went to bed the night before.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Stefana, filled with enthusiasm and generosity of soul, had starched not the bosom alone but the entire shirt.

From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Annie Hamilton Donnell

She had starched the muslins!—a circumstance, I am perfectly certain, unheard of in the memory o' man, and a thing which my mother ne'er did.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by John Mackay Wilson

Related Words

• carbohydrate
• sugar