Crossword-Solution: STIFFEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Stiffen | v. t. | To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. |
| Stiffen | v. t. | To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. |
| Stiffen | v. t. | To make torpid; to benumb. |
| Stiffen | v. i. | To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “STIFFEN”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| make stiff or stiffer | 1 answer |
| Add starch | 1 answer |
| Add starch to | 1 answer |
| Become less flexible | 1 answer |
| Brace for a shock | 1 answer |
| Exhibit fright, in a way | 1 answer |
| Get starched? | 1 answer |
| Necks might do it | 1 answer |
| React to an insult, maybe | 1 answer |
| Use starch | 1 answer |
| grow thicker | 1 answer |
| make or become stiff | 1 answer |
| make stiff | 1 answer |
| Exhibit stage fright | 2 answers |
| Tighten (up) | 4 answers |
| brace oneself | 5 answers |
| ossify | 7 answers |
| fossilise | 8 answers |
| BECOME rigid | 10 answers |
| BECOME HARD OR HARDER | 10 answers |
| BECOME RIGID OR IMMOVEABLE | 10 answers |
| Jell | 11 answers |
| starch | 13 answers |
| inspissate | 15 answers |
| indurate | 17 answers |
| Congeal | 19 answers |
| Toughen | 20 answers |
| MAKE rigid | 21 answers |
| Solidify | 22 answers |
| make inactive | 23 answers |
| Curdle | 23 answers |
| anneal | 24 answers |
| Petrify | 24 answers |
| Gel | 26 answers |
| clot | 30 answers |
| Gum | 34 answers |
| Smear | 45 answers |
| MAKE firm | 54 answers |
| Tense | 55 answers |
| Harden | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with STIFFEN (5)
The minister might stand there, if it so pleased him, until morning should redden in the east, without other risk than that the dank and chill night air would creep into his frame, and stiffen his joints with rheumatism, and clog his throat with catarrh and cough; thereby defrauding the expectant audience of tomorrow’s prayer and sermon.
Thea could always see her elbows stiffen.) She unvaryingly executed this gesture with a smile of gracious confidence, as if she were actually putting her finger on the tone: “There it is, friends!” This morning, in Gounod’s “Ave Maria,” as Miss Darcey approached her B natural,— Dans—nos a-lár———mes! Out went the hand, with the sure airy gesture, though it was little above A she got with her voice, whatever she touched with her finger.
The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod,—or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly,—thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.
They’re jealous of you”—he felt her stiffen coldly at the word ‘jealous’—“merely because I sometimes bring you a book,” he added slowly.
Then lo! if arms are clashed afar, Bide still he cannot: ears stiffen and limbs quake; His nostrils snort and roll out wreaths of fire.
Quotes with STIFFEN (3)
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, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.
I don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at you. To dodge your skin in the hallwayand leave the kitchen without bringing you a treat. It takes much too effort to stare at the sinkso my eyes don’t smile at you in the mirror. It takes much too effort to look away as we undressand lie apart in the now bigger bed. It takes much too effort to stiffen my bodybecause sleepy limbs forget fightsand pride is always lost in dreams. It takes much too effort to awak…
Sealing your lips makes your eyes talk Truth creeps beneath your lame feet’s walk Knees stiffen when blood vessels stalk A pounding heart’s lies hard as rock
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1976–2020).