What is another word for stiffen?
667 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ stˈɪfən], [ stˈɪfən], [ s_t_ˈɪ_f_ə_n]Table of Contents
Similar words for stiffen:
- other relevant words (noun)
- change (verb)
- fix (verb)
- fortify (verb)
- freeze (verb)
- harden (verb)
- infix (verb)
- jell (verb)
- make or become harder (verb)
- ossify (verb)
- reinforce (verb)
- set (verb)
- stabilize (verb)
- support (verb)
- tauten (verb)
- temper (verb)
- thicken (verb)
- tighten (verb)
- other synonyms
- congeal
- harden
- indurate
- ossify
- other relevant words
- stabilize
- support
- tauten
- tighten
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Stiffen:
n.
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- prop,
- relax,
- benumb,
- revive,
- petrify,
- bring to,
- moisten,
- evaporate,
- brace,
- starch,
- cement,
- precipitate,
- limber,
- strengthen,
- anneal.
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- 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.
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- stiff,
- still,
- stationary,
- immobile,
- sedentary,
- inert,
- undisturbed,
- static,
- at rest,
- motionless.
v.
• change (verb) • 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- takes shape,
- taking shape,
- co-hering,
- co here,
- co-here,
- co heres,
- took shape,
- co-heres,
- came together,
- co hering.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Other synonyms:
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- invigorate,
- sharpen,
- convulse,
- thaw,
- firm up.
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- surge.
- jellify,
- Concreting,
- jellied,
- concretes,
- clabbered,
- Jellified,
- Gels,
- gelling,
- gelled,
- Gelatinate,
- Concreted,
- gelate,
- clabber,
- Jellying,
- clabbering,
- curdling,
- Caking,
- glob up,
- curdled,
- gel,
- Caked,
- Jellifying.
- 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.
- instilling,
- rigidifying,
- comes together,
- pillaring,
- soup up,
- chilled to the bone,
- heats up,
- stand up for,
- braze,
- Embedding,
- come together,
- congeal,
- coming together,
- stood up for,
- Brazing,
- shoring up,
- fortify,
- lend a hand,
- under-lining,
- ice up,
- punch up,
- tighten,
- pour it on,
- glaciate,
- steadied,
- glaciated,
- freeze,
- heated up,
- steadying,
- tempered,
- take shape,
- rigidified,
- thicken,
- shored up,
- chill to the bone,
- Brazed,
- stabilize,
- heat up,
- Moored,
- prop up,
- inspissate,
- thickening,
- brazes,
- shore up,
- pin on,
- Riveted,
- fix,
- ice over,
- positioning,
- pour on,
- infix,
- Gluing,
- reinforce,
- grow thick,
- ossify,
- fixed,
- tauten,
- freeze to,
- moor,
- propped up,
- pillared,
- become firm,
- glued,
- jell,
- staying put,
- souped up,
- becomes firm,
- toughen up,
- rigidify,
- frosted,
- stay put,
- propping up.
- Ballasting,
- Counterpoising,
- Ballasted,
- counter-balance,
- Stabilitate,
- counter-balances,
- firmed up,
- counterpoised.
- 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.
- 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:
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Independent
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Verb, base form
bolster, enhance, strengthen, strengthened.
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Verb, base form
heighten, reinforce, toughen, reinforcing.
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Homophones for Stiffen:
- stave in, skidpan, stewpan, step in, staff vine, step on, steepen, step-in, set upon, stephanion, steuben, stephen.
Hypernym for Stiffen:
Hyponym for Stiffen:
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