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unstiffened

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Not stiffened.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1832, G. P. R. James, Henry Masterton, or The Adventures of a Young Cavalier, London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, Volume 3, Chapter 8, pp. 180-181, He then approached the body of the Benedictine, who had fallen forward on his face; and after gazing on it for a moment as it lay, he turned it over with his foot, even while the yet unstiffened limbs hung languidly back in the position they had assumed, with the flaccid relaxation of late death.

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History

Etymology

From un- + stiffened.