Usually means: Becomes harder, less easily bent.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. stiffens: Merriam-Webster
  2. stiffens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stiffens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Stiffens, stiffens: Wordnik
  5. stiffens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. stiffens: Wiktionary
  7. stiffens: Dictionary.com
  8. stiffens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. stiffens: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stiffens: Legal dictionary

(Note: See stiffen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stiffen)

verb:  (transitive) To make stiff.
verb:  (intransitive) To become stiff.
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