Cold
Cold adjective - Having a low or subnormal temperature.
Stiff is a synonym for cold in unfriendly topic. In some cases you can use "Stiff" instead an adjective "Cold".
Both words in one sentence
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They do not become all cold and stiff, instead they sit on the ground, shiver dramatically, get frosted eyebrows and slowly lose consciousness.
Source: Harmless Freezing - Completely Missing the Point: Erasmus' mother panics when Erasmus "proves" that she is a stone, and screams that her legs are getting stiff and cold.
Source: Theatre / Erasmus Montanus -
His fingers were too stiff from the cold to do that properly, ending with the ice breaking in a random pattern instead of a straight line.
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