- Become rigid - Brace - Constrain - Solidify - To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to
stiffen cloth with starch. - To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to
stiffen paste. - To make torpid; to benumb.
- Became bone like - Become rigid - Harden into ice - To form into bone; to change from a soft animal
substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. - Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. - To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard
bony tissue.
- Petrify (of bone) - To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to
fossilize bones or wood. - To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. - To become fossil. - To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the
influence of change or progress.
- Bestow - Contribute - Donate - Grant will yield under pressure - present with - Yield - To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without
compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or
permission; to yield up or allow.