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📖 Определения и значения для слова stiff

📒 difficult to bend or move

  • a sheet of stiff black cardboard
  • Scrub away any residue with a stiff brush.
  • The windows were stiff and she couldn't get them open.

📒 when a person or a part of their body is stiff, their muscles hurt when they move them

  • I'm really stiff after that bike ride yesterday.
  • I've got a stiff neck.
  • I've got a stiff neck from sleeping in a draught.

📒 thick; difficult to stir (= move around with a spoon)

  • Whisk the egg whites until stiff.

📒 more difficult or severe than usual

  • It was a stiff climb to the top of the hill.
  • The company faces stiff competition from its rivals.
  • The new proposals have met with stiff opposition.

📒 not friendly or relaxed

  • The speech he made to welcome them was stiff and formal.
  • His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.
  • She was aware that her words sounded stiff.

📒 costing a lot or too much

  • There's a stiff $30 entrance fee to the exhibition.

📒 strong; containing a lot of alcohol

  • a stiff whisky
  • ‘What you need is a stiff drink,’ he told her.

📒 to keep calm and hide your feelings when you are in pain or in a difficult situation

  • He was taught to keep a stiff upper lip and never to cry in public.
  • Their reaction contrasts sharply with the stiff upper lip of the English.
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