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(of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
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(of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
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(of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
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Harsh, severe.
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He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.
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(of muscles or parts of the body) Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
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My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.
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Potent.
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a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze.
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Dead, deceased.
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(of a penis) Erect.
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(of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
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beat the egg whites until they are stiff
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Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
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Keeping upright.