stiffening

Speech parts

1. stiffening - Noun

2. stiffening - Verb

Meaning

of Stiffen

Act or process of making stiff.

Something used to make anything stiff.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

harden setting tense strengthen reinforce curing rigidity hardening crystallization solidify constrain tighten fortify coagulation stiffen

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Antonyms

fight combat counter contest resist deny

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Hypernyms

process action activity procedure natural action natural process

Hyponyms

rigor mortis

Phrases with the word

muscular stiffening

Examples

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. Edward Abbey

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. E. M. Forster

The United States needs a man at the helm who knows some psychology, who would know that you can't try to dictate to a people from abroad without stiffening their resistance. Pieter Willem Botha

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion. Victor Hugo

There was a stiffening to the jaw. When caught off-guard, professors can act just like people. Isaac Asimov

stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

stiffen the resolve of stiffen up stiffener stiffening order stiffer stiffhearted