stiffening
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance"
stiffening
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the process of becoming stiff or rigid
stiffly
— Biord
– Engelsk
～ in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"
stiffly
— Biord
– Engelsk
～ in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright"
stiffness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
stiffness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
stiffness
— Navneord
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～ excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
stiffness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
stiffness
— Navneord
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～ the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
stifle
— Navneord
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～ joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
stifle
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity; "Stifle your curiosity"
stifle
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
stifle
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ suppress in order to conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a laugh"; "repress a cry of fear"
stifle
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
stifled
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
stifler
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop"
stifling
— Navneord
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～ forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
stifling
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
stigma
— Navneord
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～ a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
stigma
— Navneord
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～ an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod