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stiffened

stiff·en
S s

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [stif-uh n]
    • /ˈstɪf ən/
    • /ˈstɪf.ən/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [stif-uh n]
    • /ˈstɪf ən/

Definitions of stiffened word

  • verb with object stiffened to make stiff. 1
  • verb without object stiffened to become stiff. 1
  • verb without object stiffened to become suddenly tense, rigid, or taut, as in bracing oneself for or drawing back from shock, fear, or displeasure: He stiffened, expecting to hear the worst. 1
  • adjective stiffened having been made stiff or stiffer 0
See all 4 definitions of stiffened

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Origin of stiffened

First appearance:

before 1490
One of the 26% oldest English words
First recorded in 1490-1500; stiff + -en1

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Stiffened

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Stiffened

stiffened popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data about 66% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

stiffened usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for stiffened

adj stiffened

  • backed — having a back or backing
  • built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.

verb stiffened

  • callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
  • firmed — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
  • froze — simple past tense of freeze.
  • gelled — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
  • glaciated — Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
All 8 Synonyms of stiffened

Antonyms for stiffened

verb stiffened

  • featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
Just one Antonym for stiffened

Top questions with stiffened

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Related words

  • chinese lug

    a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.

  • corset

    A corset is a stiff piece of underwear worn by some women, especially in the past. It fits tightly around their hips and waist and makes them thinner around the waist when they wear it.

  • crowhop

    a short hop.

  • echinoderm

    any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.

  • gimp

    a limp.

  • piculet

    any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
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