Stiffening Synonyms and Antonyms

Become stiff or stiffer
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. starching
  2. inflating
  3. reviving
  4. invigorating
  5. strengthening
  6. evaporating
  7. precipitating
  8. fixing
  9. cementing
  10. propping
  11. bracing
  12. ossifying
  13. petrifying
  14. annealing
  15. benumbing
  16. hardening
Antonyms:
  1. loosening
  2. moistening
  3. relaxing
The process of becoming stiff or rigid
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rigidifying
  2. rigidification

Stiffening Sentence Examples

  • There are four cables, one on each side of the two main trusses or stiffening girders.

  • In the long run, however, even this palliative ceased to work; and accordingly on June 5 1917 a new stiffening of the standing orders was voted, which sufficed in effect during the later period of the Parliament.

  • She was soon soaked by a light drizzle and stretched to keep her stiffening muscles warm.

  • The underside of the stiffening girder is 82 ft.

  • This is due to stiffening of the heart muscle.

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