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stiff-haired |
stiff-hearted |
stiff-necked |
stiff-neckedness |
stiff-tailed |
stiffen
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| stiffener
| stiffening
| stiffish
| stiffly
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stiffen
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb stiffen has 3 senses
- stiffen(v = verb.change) Array - become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room" is one way to change
- stiffen(v = verb.change) Array - make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine" is one way to alter, change, modify
- stiffen(v = verb.change) constrain, tighten, tighten up - restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations" is one way to bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel
Antonym: loosen
Derived form noun stiffening1
Sample sentences:
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Antonym: loosen
Derived forms noun stiffener1, noun stiffening2
Sample sentences:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
stiffen, v. t. [See Stiff.].
- To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. [1913 Webster]"Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." [1913 Webster]
- To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. [1913 Webster]
- To make torpid; to benumb. [1913 Webster]
stiffen, v. i.
To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective. [1913 Webster]
"Like bristles rose my stiffening hair."
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"The tender soil then stiffening by degrees."
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"Some souls we see,
Grow hard and stiffen with adversity." [1913 Webster]
Grow hard and stiffen with adversity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stiffen, v.tr. & intr. make or become stiff.
Derivative
stiffener n. stiffening n.
THESAURUS
stiffen
amplify, back, be tough, beef up, brace, brace up, buttress, case harden, charge, clot, coagulate, confirm, congeal, crystallize, electrify, endure, energize, fortify, galvanize, generate, gird, hang tough, harden, invigorate, jell, loop in, nerve, plug in, prop, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, rigidify, screw up, set, shock, shore up, short, short-circuit, solidify, steel, step down, step up, strengthen, support, sustain, switch off, switch on, tauten, temper, tense, thicken, tighten, toughen, trice up, turn off, turn on, undergirdROGET THESAURUS
stiffen
Hardness
VB render hard, harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify, accrust.
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