"unstiffen" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "un- + stiffen",
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  "etymology_text": "From un- + stiffen.",
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      "form": "unstiffens",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "unstiffening",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "unstiffened",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "unstiffened",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1917, Alice Cholmondeley, Christine:",
          "text": "We stopped here about ten o'clock this morning, and I was so tired and stiff after the long night wedged in tight in the railway carriage that I got out to get some air and unstiffen myself, instinctively clutching my fiddle-case; and a Bavarian officer on the platform, watching the train with some soldiers, saw me and came over to me at once and demanded to see my papers.",
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        "To remove the stiffness from; to relax; to make pliant."
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          "stiffness",
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          "relax",
          "relax"
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          "pliant",
          "pliant"
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  "word": "unstiffen"
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      "expansion": "un- + stiffen",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From un- + stiffen.",
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    {
      "form": "unstiffens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unstiffening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unstiffened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unstiffened",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1917, Alice Cholmondeley, Christine:",
          "text": "We stopped here about ten o'clock this morning, and I was so tired and stiff after the long night wedged in tight in the railway carriage that I got out to get some air and unstiffen myself, instinctively clutching my fiddle-case; and a Bavarian officer on the platform, watching the train with some soldiers, saw me and came over to me at once and demanded to see my papers.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To remove the stiffness from; to relax; to make pliant."
      ],
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          "stiffness",
          "stiffness"
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          "relax",
          "relax"
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          "pliant",
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  "word": "unstiffen"
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