Stiffen in a sentence as a verb

After this many seconds, the PLL will start to stiffen the P and I terms to gain noise immunity.

It's going to be awfully floppy unless you use some material that can stiffen on command.

That makes the hands tense, which reduces accuracy and speed, and the instinctive reaction is to stiffen the hands even more, making it worse.

The idea behind the eye muscles is that near work puts tension on the muscles and they stiffen up and thus elongate the eyeball.

This is probably on the lines of the vibrations causing the plants to stiffen up and produce better supporting structures.

I upgraded my 3D printer's X and Z axes to MGN12 linear rails in order to stiffen up the extruder significantly.

Imagine a factory of chinese workers, all sewing and this this silent rolling monster drifts slowly by, and they all stiffen in fear and work extra hard...

I suppose it's good that some effort from experienced people has been made, but this really concerns me that the security stiffening was a "side project" of some Google folks.

If I anthropomorphize my lettuce in just the right way, pulling leaves off of the plant for salad causes them to wilt, while bathing the same wilted leaves in cold water causes them stiffen again.

The classes upon whom the amateur work of coercion falls are unwearied in their zeal, but often their agitation, instead of converting merely serves to stiffen their resistance.

Stiffen definitions

verb

become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room"

verb

make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"

verb

restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"

See also: tighten constrain