stiffened 的 2 个定义
- to make stiff.
- to become stiff.
- to become suddenly tense, rigid, or taut, as in bracing oneself for or drawing back from shock, fear, or displeasure: He stiffened, expecting to hear the worst.
stiffened 近义词
make or become harder
更多stiffened例句
- Excess sodium narrows and stiffens blood vessels, raising blood pressure, which can lead to heart disease, stroke and other serious medical conditions.
- She also recommends mobility work like foam rolling, dynamic stretching, and body-weight movements to offset stiffening tendons and ligaments.
- A couple of us returned with a coat hanger and succeeded at pulling the stiffened, misshapen orb into the daylight.
- Led by California, states are stiffening the standards—and that’s welcome news for Tesla.
- Meanwhile, the states are tightening, while the Feds ease, by stiffening the ZEV standards.
- The bearded volunteer, wearing an over-sized black flack jacket, said rebel resistance had stiffened.
- I was in a daze, still wearing clothes stiffened with evaporated sea salt.
- At the crucial moment, she stiffened George HW Bush's spine to fight to rescue Kuwait in the first Gulf War.
- It stiffened Israeli backs even further against being conciliatory about starting talks with the Palestinians.
- This powerhouse of a speaker stiffened the spine of a president too eager to bend before the false promise of bipartisanship.
- Abner stiffened, grew tense, as one becomes at the moment of bursting into dynamic action, but he did not stir.
- It can be stiffened by girders and bracing and is then of mixed type, when it loses much of its advantage in economy.
- Nevertheless, the stiffened suspension bridge will probably be the type adopted in future for very great spans.
- The vertical sides of the girders are stiffened so that they amount to 40% of the whole weight.
- The original design was for a stiffened suspension bridge, but after the fall of the Tay bridge in 1879 this was abandoned.