Definitions for Stiffen
ˈstɪf ənstiff·en

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stiffenverb

   become stiff or stiffer

   "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room"

2. stiffenverb

   make stiff or stiffer

   "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"

3. stiffen, tighten, tighten up, constrainverb

   restrict

   "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stiffenverb

   To make stiff.

2. stiffenverb

   To become stiff.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Stiffenverb

   Etymology: stifian , Saxon.

   1. To make stiff; to make inflexible; to make unpliant.

   When the blast of war blows in our ears,
   Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
   Disguise fair nature with hard favour’d rage. William Shakespeare, H. V.

   He stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 13.

   The poor, by them disrobed, naked lie,
   Veil’d with no other covering but the sky;
   Expos’d to stiff’ning frosts, and drenching showers,
   Which thicken’d air from her black bosom pours. George Sandys.

   Her eyes grow stiffen’d, and with sulphur burn. Dryden.

   2. To make obstinate.

   Her stiff’ning grief,
   Who saw her children slaughter’d all at once,
   Was dull to mine. John Dryden.

2. To Stiffenverb

   1. To grow stiff; to grow rigid; to become unpliant.

   Aghast, astonish’d, and struck dumb with fear,
   I stood; like bristles rose my stiff’ning hair. Dryden.

   Fix’d in astonishment I gaze upon thee,
   Like one just blasted by a stroke from heaven,
   Who pants for breath, and stiffens yet alive;
   In dreadful looks, a monument of wrath. Joseph Addison, Cato.

   2. To grow hard; to be hardened.

   The tender soil, then stiffening by degrees,
   Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas. Dryden.

   3. To grow less susceptive of impression; to grow obstinate.

   Some souls, we see,
   Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. Dryden.

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1. stiffen

   To make or become rigid or firm, often in order to strengthen or restrict movement. This action can apply to physical objects, body parts, or attitudes and behaviors.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Stiffenverb

   to make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch

2. Stiffenverb

   to inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste

3. Stiffenverb

   to make torpid; to benumb

4. Stiffenverb

   to become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective

5. Etymology: [See Stiff.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Stiffen in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Stiffen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Stiffen in a Sentence

1. Leah Greenbaum:

   She would just stare and stiffen, sometimes she would shake uncontrollably, she always loses control of her body so she’ll drop on the floor and bang her head.

2. F. H. Bradley:

   Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

3. La Russa:

   He’s got a significant bone bruise there, but the X-ray was negative so it’s just real sore. We’ll see how he feels tomorrow, it takes a while for it to bark. He slid, he felt it, but it was sore already. But it’s just like if something’s sore, you hit it again, it hurts again. If it was going to stiffen up more, that’s why sometimes you get a guy out right away and put ice on it.

4. William Shakespeare:

   Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Stiffen
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stiffen
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Stiffen
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Stiffen