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Definition of STIFFENED

Stiffened
Stiffen Stiff"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stiffened; p. pr. & vb. n. Stiffening.] [See Stiff.] 1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. --Shak. 2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste. 3. To make torpid; to benumb.

Meaning of STIFFENED from wikipedia

- Maritime rescue device made of stiffened netting...
- Alice bands made of plastic and stiffened fabric...
- give extremely high strength-weight ratios. Isogrid panels form self-stiffened structures where low weight, stiffness, strength and damage tolerance...
- and silk, stiffened with starch, and stiffened with whalebone. A busk, typically made of wood, ivory, metal, or whalebone, was added to stiffen the front...
- A support****e or underpropper is a stiffened support for a ruff or collar. Essential items of courtly fashion in the late 16th and early 17th centuries...
- Alexander the Great in battle. Pteruges of leather or stiffened linen are depicted at the shoulders and hips, emerging from beneath his cuir****. Detail...
- this polymer that is used to stiffen clothing. Starch was widely used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries to stiffen the wide collars and ruffs of...
- is called 煮凝り (Niko-gori), literally 'boiled then become flocculated/stiffened'. Not intended cooking, occurs naturally in winter, historically tasted...
- The Schwandbach Bridge is a deck-stiffened reinforced concrete arch bridge near Bern in Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart and completed in November...
- aggravates its inflammation, perpetuating the problem. Muscle can also be stiffened. Bursitis commonly affects superficial bursae. These include the subacromial...