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English to English adjective
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having a strong physiological or chemical effect |  | Example: a potent toxin
potent liquor
a potent cup of tea
a stiff drink
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Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. | | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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not moving or operating freely | | Example: a stiff hinge
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powerful | | Example: a stiff current
a stiff breeze
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rigidly formal | | Example: a starchy manner
the letter was stiff and formal
his prose has a buckram quality
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marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | | Example: firm convictions
a firm mouth
steadfast resolve
a man of unbendable perseverence
unwavering loyalty
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incapable of or resistant to bending | | Example: a rigid strip of metal
a table made of rigid plastic
a palace guardsman stiff as a poker
stiff hair
a stiff neck
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very drunk | | source: wordnet30
adverb
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extremely | | Example: bored stiff
frightened stiff
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in a stiff manner | | Example: his hands lay stiffly
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noun
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an ordinary man | | Example: a lucky stiff
a working stiff
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the dead body of a human being | | Example: the cadaver was intended for dissection
the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse
the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river
honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay
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