"stiffen" meaning in All languages combined

See stiffen on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈstɪfən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stiffen.wav [UK] Forms: stiffen [canonical], stiffens [third-person, singular], stiffened [past], stiffened [past, participle], stiffening [present, participle]
Etymology: stiff + -en Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|stiff|en}} stiff + -en Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you stiffen, you stop moving and make your muscles hard.
    Sense id: simple-stiffen-en-verb-NtdBh2m5 Categories (other): Verbs
  2. If your muscles or joints stiffen, they become painful to move.
    Sense id: simple-stiffen-en-verb-mw-qq9RE Categories (other): Verbs
  3. If you stiffen something, you make it stronger or harder so that it is more difficult to bend.
    Sense id: simple-stiffen-en-verb-AKbFAp8p
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -en
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