Stiffening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STIFFENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• support or strengthen (a garment or fabric), typically by adding tape or an adhesive layer.
• make or become stronger or more steadfast
• make or become stiff or rigid
NOUN:
• the act of stiffening
• Act or process of making stiff.
• Something used to make anything stiff.
• the act of becoming stiff
• the process of becoming stiff or rigid
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make stiff

Words related to STIFFENING

stiffen13 stiffened16 stiffens14

Words that contain STIFFENING

stiffenings18 unstiffening19

How to use STIFFENING in a sentence

• He sprang to his feet, his spine stiffening and a snarl in his throat.
• Hilda felt her features stiffening into a sort of wilful and insincere hostility as she shook hands.
• He slackened speed slightly and freed a foot from the stirrup, stiffening it to carry weight.
• Greenleaf was utterly bewildered, but held on to the tiller with his aching, stiffening hand, and strove to inspire his companion with courage.
• The wind, rising, made a dreary sound among the stiffening leaves.
• He felt his arms stiffening in his wet sleeves, and his knees grow weak.
• Only William Pressley said nothing, and sat perfectly still, with a sudden stiffening of his bearing.
• Stiffening himself he told his story as manfully as he could.
• Her lips had a way of stiffening to command, and she was used to coming straight to the point.
• The stiffening for the bottom will be cut as if for a carpet bag.
• The girl was stiffening in the rigidity of her reclining attitude.
• I could see the savage gleam of satisfaction on his face when he threw from him the already stiffening arm.
• Her face paled a little at his brutal words, at the insult they implied, and she became a little rigid, her lips stiffening.
• He saw the warmth fading from the eyes, the hard stern lines settling about the mouth, the cold stiffening of her whole body.
• Langhope assented, his light smile stiffening into a yawn at the mere suggestion.
• The fourth preacher walked down the aisle searching for those who were yet hardening their hearts and stiffening their necks.
• The Ordish bridge built at Prague in 1868 had oblique chains supporting the stiffening girders at intermediate points of the span.
• There are three chains on each side, of one and two links alternately, and these support wrought iron stiffening girders.
• Hikozaemon was skilled in defence, but stiffening with age.
• Other periods of active improvement have died by stiffening at last into some routine.
• Thus the Gothic gaiety of the thirteenth century stiffening into the mere Gothic ugliness of the fifteenth.
• Instead, we felt the pinch of their defection in the stiffening of enemy resistance on our front by the transfer of good troops from the Caucasus to Palestine.
• If you had a little stiffening in your back, the profits would show up better.
• Belle resented it by stiffening at once, and glancing coldly at Ripley without greeting him.
• But suddenly there was silence, a stiffening up, and a military salute all round.
• As a matter of fact, bears are not much good at negotiating high jumps, particularly when their joints have been stiffening during the greater part of the winter.
• I watched that horrid thing, with my hair stiffening on my head.
• She stood there until the aching of her straining eyes and the stiffening of her limbs in the cold wind compelled her to seek the sheltered warmth of the courtyard.
• Horses have a way of stiffening their forelegs and sliding their hind feet and giving a lot of dramatic finish to the performance.
• The earth was stiffening with the frost that lingered late in that latitude, and there were patches of ice, across which she picked her way.
• I sunk deeper in the shadow of my covert, and stiffening my muscles for a protracted spell of rigidity, prepared to listen with all acuteness and intensity.
• Those slips of paper, I reflected as I worked, at least rent the veil of mystery enveloping the corpse that lay stiffening in the next room.

Similar words containing STIFFEN without suffix ing

stiffen13 stiffens14 stiffened16 stiffener15 unstiffen15 stiffeners16 unstiffens16 stiffenings18 unstiffened18 unstiffening19

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