stiffen up

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stiffen something up

to make something rigid or tense. He added a little starch to the rinse water to stiffen his collars up a bit. The cold draft has stiffened up my neck.

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Or may the good Lord help you if you just stiffen up and talk like a robot when a woman gets within twenty yards of you and looks straight at you. Building up Confidence with Women by James B. Whitely / Relationships community The problem for Drew has been advancing past BP without having his back stiffen up, but Francona said, "This is as encouraged as he's been in a long time. Francona lets his players vent by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) I started to really stiffen up and could not walk," he explains. Ken has got pain relief off to a tea by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)			stick out stick out a mile stick out against stick out like a sore thumb stick out to stick shift stick through stick to stick to fingers stick to guns stick to knitting stick to ribs stick together stick tongue out stick up stick up for stick with stick with it stick-in-the-mud Sticks and stones may break my bones sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me sticks in the/ mind sticky stiff stiff as a poker stiffen up stigmatize as still still and all still as death still tongue makes a wise head still waters run deep stimulate into sting sting for sting with stink stink on ice stink to high heaven stink up stink with stinking stinking rich stinking with stir stir around stir into stir to stir up stir up a hornet's nest stir-crazy			stiff upper lip stiff-arm stiff-armed stiff-arming stiff-arms stiff-backed stiff-branched stiff-haired Stiff-hearted stiff-leg derrick stiff-man syndrome stiff-man syndrome stiff-man syndrome stiff-mud brick stiff-necked Stiff-neckedness Stiff-person syndrome Stiff-tailed Stiff-tailed duck stiff-tailed ducks stiffback stiffed stiffed stiffed stiffed stiffed stiffen stiffen stiffen stiffen stiffen up stiffened stiffened stiffened compression element stiffened expanded metal Stiffened Plate Floor Deck stiffened seated-beam connection stiffened-shell fuselage stiffener stiffener stiffener stiffeners stiffeners stiffening stiffening stiffening angle Stiffening order stiffens stiffens stiffer stiffer stiffer stiffer stiffer stiffest stiffest stiffest stiffest stiffest stiffie stiffie

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