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Перевод: stiffen

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делать тугим; делаться тугим; делать негибким; делаться негибким; густеть; сгущать; коченеть; окоченеть; костенеть; окостеневать; деревенеть; одеревенеть; умирать

Тезаурус:

1. Many of them wear slippers around the house, and if they tend to shuffle a little as their joints stiffen, rugs become dangerous obstacles to their safe movement from room to room.
3. After I have cut, straightened and sharpened the stakes I put them away to dry out and stiffen - to season - before they are used.
4. Suddenly, he felt her stiffen below him.
5. Other measures can help stiffen a building but are less than ideal.
6. Breeze felt herself stiffen with horror.
7. THE Prime Minister's senior advisers will meet this weekend to try to rescue the Government's student top-up loans scheme, as the clearing banks - which would run it on the Treasury's behalf - stiffen their opposition.
8. He has tried to "stiffen" the side defensively, to teach the virtues of match-long disciplined marking without stifling his players' natural creative talents.
9. The overall conclusion was that bombing did not stiffen morale, but seriously depressed it: fatalism, apathy, defeatism, and other psychological effects were all more strongly encountered among bombed than umbombed sections of the population.
10. For example, "moment resisting frames" - building frames in which columns and beams are rigidly attached and reinforced to carry the building's load - help stiffen buildings.
11. We may not sleep through winter, but we huddle, and stiffen, and hoard the warmth of fires and hot food, until spring unbunches our shoulder muscles, and thaws our movements into fluency.
12. With the wild night, after two months, sobriety, he had a hangover would stiffen an eel.
13. One is to stiffen the anti-inflationary resolve of wobbly coalition or spendthrift socialist governments - and we have not got either of those.