makes flexible
Renders more pliable
Makes flexible means to cause something to become more pliable, adaptable, or less rigid.
The phrase applies to physical materials—heat makes metal flexible—and to abstract things like rules, schedules, or attitudes: The new policy makes our hours more flexible.
It can also describe loosening up a stiff body: Stretching makes your muscles flexible.
- softensReduces intensity or hardness
- loosens upBecomes more relaxed
- accommodatesMakes room for
- modifiesChanges partially
- toleratesPermits without approval
diversifies · opens doors · limbers · adapts · goes with the flow · improvises · reframes · loosens · molds · bends · bends the rules · optimizes · stretches · accepts · relaxes · streamlines · adjusts · reshapes
makes flexiblerigidifies
Becomes stiff or inflexible
stiffens · hardens · solidifies · petrifies · calcifies
makes flexiblelocks in
Fixes in place
entrenches · constrains · cements · restricts · fixes
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