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unstiffening

unstiffening is the present participle and gerund of unstiffen.

Meaning of unstiffen

Verb

unstiffen (third-person singular simple present unstiffens, present participle unstiffening, simple past and past participle unstiffened)

  1. To remove the stiffness from; to relax; to make pliant.
    • We stopped here about ten o'clock this morning, and I was so tired and stiff after the long night wedged in tight in the railway carriage that I got out to get some air and unstiffen myself, instinctively clutching my fiddle-case; and a Bavarian officer on the platform, watching the train with some...1917, Alice Cholmondeley, Christine

Questions about unstiffening

What is unstiffening the present participle and gerund of?
Unstiffening is the present participle and gerund of unstiffen.

Words near unstiffening in the dictionary

  1. unsticky
  2. unstickying
  3. unstiff
  4. unstiffen
  5. unstiffened
  6. unstiffening
  7. unstiffens
  8. unstifled
  9. unstifling
  10. unstigmatised
  11. unstigmatized

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