seize up
stiffen
tensioned
rigid
rigidifying
rigidification
stiffening
stark
strainingly
tough
toughened
harder than Chinese math
rigidulous
ramroddy
subrigid
stiffen up
stiff as a poker
stiff as a board
tonic
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ankylosed
starch
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toughen
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high-tension
tighten
wring
stifflike
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brace
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stretch
tight
groan
clampable
hardsome
outstrain
crack
stoopy
chest tightness
twist
overpressure
ossify
upseek
cramped
TAG
ligature
topple
grind
ankylosis
overflexed
bind
extend oneself
limpen
crush
toughenable
overstress
slidey
superhard
give
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pinched
viselike
flex
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belly out
angry walk
tensioned
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tough
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harder than Chinese math
rigidulous
ramroddy
subrigid
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stiff as a board
tonic
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ankylosed
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overstiff
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stifflike
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clampable
hardsome
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superhard
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viselike
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rigidifying
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stiffening
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bind
stress
flex
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flexuousness
angry walk
seize up
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ossify
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topple
grind
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limpen
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give
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tough
displace
limber
limber up
belly out
adj
noun
- An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
- A bicycle with no suspension system.
adj
adj
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- substantially made or constructed
- violent and lawless
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
noun
adj
adj
adj
adj
- Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
- Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
- In a state of continuous unremitting action.
- Restorative, curative or invigorating.
- Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
- Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
noun
- A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
- Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
- The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
- The triad built on the tonic note.
- Tonic water.
- Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
- A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
verb
- To collapse or break under physical stresses.
- To begin rowing.
- To yield to persistent persuasion.
- To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by.
- To give precedence to other road users.
- To allow another person to intervene to make a point or ask a question whilst one is delivering a speech.
- To allow the expression of (a pent-up emotion, grief, etc.).
noun
- the physical condition of being stretched or strained
- the action of stretching something tight
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
- (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
- feelings of hostility that are not manifest
adj
noun
- Fortitude.
- Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
- A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
verb
verb
noun
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
verb
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
noun
verb
- To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
- To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- To strengthen.
- To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
- To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- To unpalatalize or velarize.
verb
- To bend or strain out of its position.
- To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.
- To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
- To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
- To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
- To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
- To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.
- To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
noun
adj
verb
- To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally)
- To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
- To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- To cease to function. (others)
- To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle)
- To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- To give in, relent, concede, or surrender.
- To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- To digest.
- To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly)
verb
- To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- To emphasise (words in speaking).
- To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
noun
- Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
- Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
noun
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
- A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- The mouth of a shaft.
verb
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
verb
verb
- To pull tight.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
adj
- Under high tension; taut.
- Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
- Unyielding or firm.
- Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
- Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
- Not conceding many goals.
- Intimate, close, close-knit.
- A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- Intimately friendly.
- Angry or irritated.
- Miserly or frugal.
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
- Mean; unfair; unkind.
- Scarce, hard to come by.
- Limited or restricted.
adv
verb
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
noun
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
verb
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- The act of tying or binding something.
- Impotence caused by magic or charms.
- A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
verb
verb
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
noun
- A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
- That which binds or ties.
- A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- The indurated clay of coal mines.
- A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
verb
- To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- To put together in a cover, as of books.
- To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- To place under legal obligation to serve.
- To cover, as with a bandage.
- To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
- To make two or more elements stick together.
- To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- To couple.
- To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- To complain; to whine about something.
- To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
verb
verb
- To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
noun
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A group or gang.
- A crowd control barrier.
- The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- A violent crowding.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
verb
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- be the cause or source of
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- convey or reveal information
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- organize or be responsible for
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- dedicate
- give or supply
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- bring about
- leave with; give temporarily
- emit or utter
- endure the loss of
- place into the hands or custody of
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- give (as medicine)
- give or convey physically
- bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- execute and deliver
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- afford access to
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- propose
- accord by verdict
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- allow to have or take
- inflict as a punishment
- occur
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- proffer (a body part)
noun
verb
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- be the cause or source of
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
- give or supply
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- be willing to concede
- be fatally overwhelmed
- bring in
- cease opposition; stop fighting
- consent reluctantly
noun
noun
- a stiff or threatening gait
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
- the act of following prey stealthily
verb
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