stiffening
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- noun
- /ˈstɪfənɪŋ/
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endurecimiento
- So, you get this stiffening of the arteries, their inability to relax normally in half.
- stiffening operation
- stiffening procedures
- palatal stiffening
And they are, they are rigid body and they have stiffening capabilities built into the outer skin of the aircraft.
- And they are, they are rigid body and they have stiffening capabilities built into the outer skin of the aircraft.
Examples
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The biological reasons for the differences in such stiffening effects need to be studied further.
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In many patients, the shrinking, shortening, and stiffening of redundant tissues will decrease snoring.
Academic text (1999) -
But notice the stiffening effect shown by the increase in the slope of this curve.
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I'm telling you, man, I felt a stiffening of the old resolve.
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Slight stiffening in the eye muscles, that's all.
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Furthermore, their results did not demonstrate any distinct and consistent stiffening effects caused by muscular activities.
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Our next goal was to examine the mechanisms underlying mesodermal stiffening in vivo.
Academic text (2018) -
Palatal stiffening procedures are also more convenient and more economical than their predecessors.
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The doctor explained that the stiffening of the arteries can lead to serious health issues.
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As the metal cooled, it underwent a stiffening process that made it less flexible.
Synonyms
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4.6
A change in a material when it becomes more solid
A change that makes something stiff and hard so it cannot bend
A process in which a material becomes stiff and hard to bend
Antonyms
How Stiff
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stiffening comes from the common word stiff, meaning 'not flexible', plus the verb-form -en, which means 'to make'. So stiffening is simply the process of becoming or making something 'stiff' or more rigid.