stiffen
ramroddy
stifflike
toughen
rigidize
stiffly
stiff
tug
stiffening
beefy
moderate
tone down
tame
tighten
fasten
ramp up
pricky
build
harden
work up
indurate
build up
ligature
rigidulous
overrigid
beef up
coarsen
sharpen
subrigid
fortify
strengthen
tauten
water down
firm
rigidifying
rigidification
strong-handed
tono-
starch
astrain
stiffen up
sound
rigid
tense
vitalize
suffocative
vitalise
jacked
keen
mollify
exquisite
pussy pounding
stark
weaken
buttress
corroborate
brace
high-powered
high-voltage
high-energy
set
high-power
high-octane
robust
pull off
pluck
pick off
steel
tweak
tough
acrid
gag
tensioned
stour
concentrate
soften
knock
fret
choke
strike hard
sharpened
rigidify
grip
pungent
beat
narrow
constringe
overstiff
constrict
ramroddy
stifflike
beefy
pricky
rigidulous
overrigid
subrigid
strong-handed
starch
astrain
sound
rigid
tense
suffocative
jacked
keen
exquisite
pussy pounding
stark
high-powered
high-voltage
high-energy
high-power
high-octane
robust
tough
acrid
tensioned
stour
sharpened
pungent
overstiff
firm
stiffly
stiff
stiffening
ligature
rigidifying
rigidification
stiffen
toughen
rigidize
tug
moderate
tone down
tame
tighten
fasten
ramp up
build
harden
work up
indurate
build up
beef up
coarsen
sharpen
fortify
strengthen
tauten
water down
firm
stiffen up
vitalize
vitalise
mollify
weaken
buttress
corroborate
brace
set
pull off
pluck
pick off
steel
tweak
gag
concentrate
soften
knock
fret
choke
strike hard
rigidify
grip
beat
narrow
constringe
constrict
adj
adj
verb
- bolster or strengthen
- make by combining materials and parts
- form or accumulate steadily
- build or establish something abstract
- improve the cleansing action of
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- give form to, according to a plan
- be engaged in building
- found or ground
- develop and grow
noun
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
adj
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- strong and sure
- not subject to revision or change
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall
- securely established
- possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue
- securely fixed in place
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
adv
noun
prefix
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
adj
- vigorous or severe
- exercising or showing good judgment
- in excellent physical condition
- logically valid
- having legal efficacy or force
- free from moral defect
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- complete; thorough
adj
noun
- the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
- the subjective sensation of hearing something
- mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
- the sudden occurrence of an audible event
- the audible part of a transmitted signal
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- a large ocean inlet or deep bay
verb
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
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
verb
- become stretched or tense or taut
- increase the tension on
- become tense, nervous, or uneasy
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
noun
verb
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- 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 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.
noun
- 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.
- The state of being braced or tight; 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 become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
adj
- Requiring strength or vigor.
- Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
- Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
- Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
- Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
- Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.
- Violent; rough; rude.
- Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
verb
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
adj
- Made of steel.
- Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
- Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
- Engraved on steel.
noun
- Extreme hardness or resilience.
- Varieties of this metal.
- The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Armor.
- An engraving plate
- Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- Projectiles.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
- A flat iron.
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- be agitated or irritated
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- cause annoyance in
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- carve a pattern into
- decorate with an interlaced design
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- wear away or erode
noun
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- become or cause to become obstructed
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- reduce the air supply
- cause to retch or choke
noun
verb
- hold fast or firmly
- to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
- to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
noun
- the act of grasping
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
- worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made
- an intellectual hold or understanding
- a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place
verb
- make by pounding or trampling
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- hit repeatedly
- move rhythmically
- shape by beating
- make a rhythmic sound
- glare or strike with great intensity
- move with a thrashing motion
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- stir vigorously
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- be superior
- avoid paying
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- move with a flapping motion
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- beat through cleverness and wit
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- wear out completely
noun
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- the sound of stroke or blow
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
adj
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