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third-person singular simple present stiffens, present participle stiffening, simple past and past participle stiffened
(transitive) To make stiff. examples
(intransitive) To become stiff. quotations examples
Bewildered by the unexpected greeting, my son stiffened, but managed a polite answer.
2003, Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor