stiff | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, strong |
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(adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, starchy |
(adjective) not moving or operating freely | - |
(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet |
(adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
(adjective) strong, vigorous | - |
(adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending | Synonyms: rigid |
(noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, remains |
(noun) an ordinary man | - |
(adverb) in a stiff manner | Synonyms: stiffly |
(adverb) to a great degree | - |
stiffen | (verb) become stiff or stiffer | - |
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(verb) make stiff or stiffer | - |
(verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, tighten, tighten up |
stiffener | (noun) a member attached to a beam web to prevent loss of strength due to web buckling. | - |
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(noun) material used for stiffening something | - |
stiffening | (noun) the act of becoming stiff | - |
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(noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidification, rigidifying |
stiffly | (adverb) in a stiff manner | Synonyms: stiff |
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(adverb) in a rigid manner | Synonyms: bolt, rigidly |
stiffness | (noun) the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend | - |
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(noun) the property of moving with pain or difficulty | - |
(noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness |
(noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
(noun) firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action | - |
stifle | (noun) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | Synonyms: knee |
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(verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: dampen |
(verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
(verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, strangle |
(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, suffocate |
stifled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, strangled, suppressed |
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stifler | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: smotherer |
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stifling | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry |
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(noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, suppression |