Synonyms for Stiffen:

• n.

  •
  • prop,
  • relax,
  • benumb,
  • revive,
  • petrify,
  • bring to,
  • moisten,
  • evaporate,
  • brace,
  • starch,
  • cement,
  • precipitate,
  • limber,
  • strengthen,
  • anneal.
  •
  • someone's stomach churns/lurches/tightens,
  • settle,
  • someone's heart pounds/beats/thumps,
  • the pit of your stomach,
  • flexible,
  • have/get/feel butterflies (in your stomach),
  • flutter,
  • inside,
  • churn.
  •
  • stiff,
  • still,
  • stationary,
  • immobile,
  • sedentary,
  • inert,
  • undisturbed,
  • static,
  • at rest,
  • motionless.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • stiffen.
  •fix (verb)
  • in stalling,
  • rigidifies,
  • in-grain,
  • in stalls,
  • in stall,
  • in-stalling,
  • stays put,
  • froze to,
  • freezes to,
  • staid put,
  • in grain,
  • in-stalled,
  • in-stilling,
  • in-stall,
  • in stalled,
  • in stilling,
  • nails down,
  • in-stalls,
  • in-grains,
  • rivetting,
  • stayed put,
  • in grains,
  • in-grained,
  • in-graining,
  • freezing to,
  • in stilled,
  • rivetted,
  • nailing down,
  • in-stilled,
  • in graining.
  •fortify (verb)
  • pours on,
  • pours it on,
  • punching up,
  • re stores,
  • punched up,
  • re-fresh,
  • punches up,
  • pouring it on,
  • poured on,
  • re stored,
  • poured it on,
  • re-news,
  • re freshes,
  • re storing,
  • re news,
  • re-new,
  • re-stored,
  • re-storing,
  • re fresh,
  • re store,
  • pouring on,
  • re new,
  • re-freshes,
  • Re-store,
  • re-stores.
  •freeze (verb)
  • be-numbs,
  • be numb,
  • chill to bone,
  • icing over,
  • ices up,
  • chilling to bone,
  • iced up,
  • be numbs,
  • be numbed,
  • glaciating,
  • be-numb,
  • chilling the bone,
  • chills bone,
  • chilling bone,
  • be-numbing,
  • chill the bone,
  • chills to bone,
  • icing up,
  • chilled to bone,
  • glaciates,
  • iced over,
  • ices over,
  • chilled bone,
  • chilled the bone,
  • be numbing,
  • chill bone,
  • chills to the bone,
  • chills the bone,
  • chilling to the bone,
  • be-numbed.
  •harden (verb)
  • solidify,
  • firm,
  • harden.
  •infix (verb)
  • in fixes,
  • in fixing,
  • in fixed,
  • in-fixes,
  • in-fix,
  • in-fixed,
  • in-fixing,
  • in fix.
  •jell (verb)
  • takes shape,
  • taking shape,
  • co-hering,
  • co here,
  • co-here,
  • co heres,
  • took shape,
  • co-heres,
  • came together,
  • co hering.
  •make or become harder (verb)
  • clot,
  • candy,
  • jelly,
  • steady,
  • chill,
  • condense,
  • coagulate,
  • tense,
  • cake,
  • crystallize,
  • inflate,
  • curdle.
  •ossify (verb)
  • turned to bone,
  • turn bone,
  • turning to bone,
  • turns bone,
  • turns to bone,
  • turned bone,
  • turning bone.
  •reinforce (verb)
  • in-creased,
  • lend hand,
  • lends a hand,
  • in crease,
  • lending a hand,
  • under lines,
  • lending hand,
  • souping up,
  • hyping,
  • stands up for,
  • lent a hand,
  • lent hand,
  • lends hand,
  • in-crease,
  • in creasing,
  • adds fuel to fire,
  • in creases,
  • under-lines,
  • props up,
  • under-line,
  • under lining,
  • under line,
  • heating up,
  • adds fuel fire,
  • shores up,
  • multi-plied,
  • multi-plying,
  • under-lined,
  • under lined,
  • multi plying,
  • standing up for,
  • soups up,
  • in-creases.
  •set (verb)
  • became firm,
  • becoming firm.
  •stabilize (verb)
  • counter-poised,
  • counter-balanced,
  • counter balances,
  • counter balancing,
  • up-hold,
  • up holds,
  • stabilitates,
  • pre-serving,
  • counter balanced,
  • stabilitated,
  • up holding,
  • counter-poises,
  • counter poising,
  • pre-served,
  • stabilitating,
  • pre serves,
  • up-held,
  • firms up,
  • pre-serves,
  • counter poised,
  • firming up,
  • up hold,
  • counter-balancing,
  • counter balance,
  • counter-poising,
  • counter poise,
  • pre serve,
  • counter poises,
  • up held,
  • pre served,
  • up-holding,
  • up-holds,
  • pre serving,
  • counter-poise.
  •support (verb)
  • am a source of strength,
  • makes a living,
  • gives a leg up,
  • made living,
  • picked up check,
  • give leg up,
  • attends to,
  • being a source of strength,
  • making living,
  • picked check,
  • earned one keep,
  • keeps an eye on,
  • earning ones keep,
  • payed for,
  • made a living,
  • is a source strength,
  • picking up check,
  • keeping eye on,
  • being source strength,
  • earning one keep,
  • under write,
  • paying expenses of,
  • gave leg up,
  • be source strength,
  • am source strength,
  • earns ones keep,
  • are source strength,
  • keeping an eye on,
  • under writes,
  • picks the check,
  • under writing,
  • am source of strength,
  • pick the check,
  • keep eye on,
  • being a source strength,
  • earns one keep,
  • art a source of strength,
  • picks up the check,
  • wast a source of strength,
  • angeling,
  • gave a leg up,
  • art a source strength,
  • kept eye on,
  • are source of strength,
  • is source strength,
  • pays for,
  • be a source strength,
  • be source of strength,
  • picking up the check,
  • gives leg up,
  • earns one's keep,
  • under-writes,
  • earns keep,
  • under-wrote,
  • is a source of strength,
  • puts money for,
  • earning one's keep,
  • wert source strength,
  • earn keep,
  • earned one's keep,
  • pick up check,
  • being source of strength,
  • was a source strength,
  • under-written,
  • under-writing,
  • caring for,
  • attending to,
  • was source strength,
  • was source of strength,
  • angeled,
  • giving leg up,
  • picks up check,
  • were a source of strength,
  • putting up money for,
  • keeps eye on,
  • earn ones keep,
  • payed expenses of,
  • wast source strength,
  • pays expenses of,
  • were source of strength,
  • picking check,
  • picking the check,
  • paying for,
  • puts up money for,
  • wast a source strength,
  • are a source strength,
  • pick check,
  • picked the check,
  • art source of strength,
  • make living,
  • earning keep,
  • earned keep,
  • are a source of strength,
  • giving a leg up,
  • wast source of strength,
  • putting money for,
  • were source strength,
  • was a source of strength,
  • earned ones keep,
  • put money for,
  • under-write,
  • under written,
  • art source strength,
  • am a source strength,
  • wert a source of strength,
  • paid expenses of,
  • makes living,
  • wert source of strength,
  • under wrote,
  • wert a source strength,
  • earn one keep,
  • picks check,
  • picked up the check,
  • is source of strength,
  • were a source strength.
  •tauten (verb)
  • went rigid,
  • goes rigid,
  • going rigid.
  •temper (verb)
  • toughened up,
  • toughening up,
  • toughens up.
  •thicken (verb)
  • grows thick,
  • grew thick,
  • growing thick.
  •tighten (verb)
  • secure.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • reinforcement,
  • bolster,
  • intensify.
  •
  • invigorate,
  • sharpen,
  • convulse,
  • thaw,
  • firm up.
  •
  • fortification.
  •
  • back,
  • set.
  •
  • surge.
  •congeal
  • jellify,
  • Concreting,
  • jellied,
  • concretes,
  • clabbered,
  • Jellified,
  • Gels,
  • gelling,
  • gelled,
  • Gelatinate,
  • Concreted,
  • gelate,
  • clabber,
  • Jellying,
  • clabbering,
  • curdling,
  • Caking,
  • glob up,
  • curdled,
  • gel,
  • Caked,
  • Jellifying.
  •harden
  • roughened,
  • toughen,
  • firming,
  • case-harden,
  • calloused,
  • Casehardened,
  • coarsening,
  • coarsens,
  • firmed,
  • vitrify,
  • case-hardening,
  • coarsen,
  • callusing,
  • callus,
  • Fossilizing,
  • Climatize,
  • Starched,
  • fossilizes,
  • Disciplining,
  • Starching,
  • fossilize,
  • Calcified,
  • fossilized,
  • disciplined,
  • coarsened,
  • calluses,
  • temper,
  • calcify,
  • roughens,
  • Roughening,
  • make callous,
  • render insensitive,
  • Casehardening,
  • case-hardened,
  • densify,
  • Calcifying,
  • callousing,
  • dulls,
  • vitrified,
  • indurate,
  • Dulling,
  • callouses,
  • Climatized,
  • embitter,
  • callused,
  • roughen.
  •indurate
  • Caseharden.
  •ossify
  • turn to bone.
  •stabilize
  • Ballasting,
  • Counterpoising,
  • Ballasted,
  • counter-balance,
  • Stabilitate,
  • counter-balances,
  • firmed up,
  • counterpoised.
  •support
  • supporting,
  • pay expenses of,
  • paid for,
  • attended to,
  • give a leg up,
  • looked after,
  • looking after,
  • kept an eye on,
  • put up money for,
  • earn one's keep,
  • Succoring,
  • pick up the check,
  • looks after,
  • cares for,
  • making a living,
  • look after,
  • care for,
  • make a living,
  • attend to,
  • be a source of strength,
  • pay for,
  • funded,
  • keep an eye on,
  • cared for.
  •tauten
  • go rigid.
  •tighten
  • tenses,
  • tensed,
  • tensing.
  •Other relevant words:
  • able,
  • stiffener,
  • galvanise,
  • rigidness,
  • short-circuit,
  • energise,
  • short,
  • beef up,
  • austerity,
  • severe,
  • sturdy,
  • innervate,
  • shock,
  • serious,
  • unyielding,
  • electrify,
  • reduce,
  • restrengthen,
  • protect,
  • rigidity,
  • amplify,
  • uncompromising,
  • confirm,
  • hardness,
  • strong,
  • stringer,
  • cut,
  • insulate,
  • solid,
  • curb,
  • inflexible,
  • galvanize,
  • tension,
  • energize,
  • capable,
  • sustain,
  • coerce,
  • gird,
  • lay,
  • inflexibility,
  • nourish,
  • hard,
  • be tough,
  • regulate,
  • turn off,
  • rigour,
  • switch off,
  • good,
  • rejuvenate,
  • encumber,
  • straighten,
  • put,
  • heady,
  • filler,
  • put together,
  • increase,
  • buttress,
  • rigorous,
  • become less flexible,
  • encourage,
  • reinvigorate,
  • stiffening,
  • tenacious,
  • become rigid,
  • trammel,
  • hearten,
  • counter,
  • padding,
  • cumber,
  • support,
  • generate,
  • restrain,
  • undergird,
  • trice up,
  • steadfast,
  • pare,
  • rigor,
  • close,
  • inure,
  • charge,
  • durable,
  • switch on,
  • taut,
  • fit out,
  • firmness,
  • rugged,
  • wiry,
  • plug in,
  • consolidate,
  • throw back,
  • bear up,
  • rigid,
  • by force,
  • square,
  • endure,
  • strict,
  • Incrassate,
  • Hardener,
  • settled,
  • vitalize,
  • gelatinize,
  • restrict,
  • piece together,
  • rocky,
  • violent,
  • stiffness,
  • strut,
  • steel,
  • hold back,
  • confine,
  • brace up,
  • screw up,
  • forceful,
  • harsh,
  • bite the bullet,
  • fasten,
  • tight,
  • grit one's teeth,
  • nerve,
  • refresh,
  • numb.

Paraphrases for Stiffen:

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    strengthen, strengthened, enhance, bolster.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    toughen, heighten, reinforce, reinforcing.

Antonyms for Stiffen:

• v.

  • change
    loosen.
  • make or become harder
    thin, weaken, soften, dissolve, melt, heat, Unfix, separate, dilute, liquefy.
  • Other antonyms:
    ameliorate, ease, moderate, lessen.

Homophones for Stiffen:

• stave in, skidpan, stewpan, step in, staff vine, step on, steepen, step-in, set upon, stephanion, steuben, stephen.

Hypernym for Stiffen:

• v.

  • change
    petrify, rigidify, buckram, starch, ossify.

Hyponym for Stiffen:

• v.

  • change
    modify, alter, change.