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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb stiffen has 3 senses
- stiffen(v = verb.change) - become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room" is one way to change
- stiffen(v = verb.change) - 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:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Antonym: loosen
Derived forms noun stiffener1, noun stiffening2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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.