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Words related to stiffen

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  • starch

    a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.

  • sclerotin

    an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.

  • toughen

    reinforce, strengthen

  • tragacanth

    a gummy substance derived from various low, spiny, Asian shrubs belonging to the genus Astragalus, of the legume family, especially A. gummifer: used to impart firmness to pills and lozenges, stiffen calicoes, etc.
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