"stiff" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

stiff adjetivo

stiff + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 122
stiff competition • stiff resistance • stiff penalty • stiff neck • stiff opposition • stiff lip • stiff breeze • stiff drink • stiff wind • ...
verbo + stiff
Kolokacji: 13
feel stiff • go stiff • stand stiff • grow stiff • look stiff • ...
(2) go, grow, freeze, become
Kolokacji: 4
1. go stiff = przejdź sztywny go stiff
  • Everyone went stiff and still for one brief moment, as if the sound had turned them all to stone.
  • He closed his eyes and went stiff, to demonstrate what it would look like.
  • Her body felt soft, she had not yet gone stiff.
  • "Try to keep moving, to prevent the leg from going stiff."
  • And then he went stiff with the sense of emptiness in the house.
  • The black man's eyes froze, and his face went stiff.
  • For a moment after she'd come in her face had gone all stiff, as if she were trying not to cry.
  • She went stiff when his hands came down on her shoulders.
  • Sitting down beside Katie again, she felt the girl suddenly go stiff as a board.
  • The human body starts to go stiff within a few hours of death.
2. grow stiff = drętwiej grow stiff
3. freeze stiff = zamroź umarlaka freeze stiff
4. become stiff = sztywniej become stiff
(3) stand, sit, lay
Kolokacji: 3
adverbio + stiff
Kolokacji: 13
pretty stiff • somewhat stiff • slightly stiff • fairly stiff • increasingly stiff • ...
stiff + preposición
Kolokacji: 6
stiff with • stiff in • stiff from • stiff for • stiff on • ...

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