unstiffen

A good cry might unstiffen his rigid bearing.

Now at last Louise Gold can begin to unstiffen and allow her own joyous personality to shine through.

Instead Laurence stood up and tried to unstiffen his neck surreptitiously by small movements to either side, without any undignified stretching.

A whoopee cushion for Hollywood, a piñata for the rowdier species of rock star, she is the ultimate empathy challenge for novelists: how to unstiffen that lip?

The ugly wood lions and tigers May show their white teeth if they please, If the whole Noah's ark Should threaten and bark It wouldn't unstiffen my knees.

Actually, it took a full day to rest and unstiffen, to wash and get clean, to obtain new clothes (satiny and rather loose, in the style of Wye), and to sleep a good deal.

So we accompany Charles on state visits to Mexico, the Middle East and Australia, where he does not turn a hair or unstiffen a lip when a man charges the stage with no good intent.