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stiffen 音标拼音: [st'ɪfən] vt. 使坚硬,使僵硬,使生硬,使粘稠
vi. 变粘,变硬,变猛烈 使坚硬,使僵硬,使生硬,使粘稠变粘,变硬,变猛烈 stiffen v 1: become stiff or stiffer; " He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room" [ ant: { loose}, { loosen}, { relax}] 2: make stiff or stiffer; " Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine" [ ant: { loose}, { loosen}] 3: restrict; " Tighten the rules"; " stiffen the regulations" [ synonym: { stiffen}, { tighten}, { tighten up}, { constrain}] Stiffen \ Stiff" en\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Stiffened}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Stiffening}.] [ See { Stiff}.] 1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. [ 1913 Webster] Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make torpid; to benumb. [ 1913 Webster]
Stiffen \ Stiff" en\, v. i. To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective. [ 1913 Webster] Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 59 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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, undergird
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