stiffen

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make stiff. transitive
    — As Willis spoke and tried to smile the voices inside him rang together like a bell, stiffening him and hollowing him and emptying him of his troubled song.
  2. To become stiff. intransitive
    — Bewildered by the unexpected greeting, my son stiffened, but managed a polite answer.

词形变化

stiffens present,singular,third-person stiffening participle,present stiffened participle,past stiffened past

词汇关系

近义词
starken
衍生词
nonstiffened nonstiffening restiffen stiffener stiffen up unstiffen unstiffened
相关词
stiff

词源

From Middle English stifnen, equivalent to stiff + -en.
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