break rigor (English, verb)
expansion: break rigor (third-person singular simple present breaks rigor, present participle breaking rigor, simple past broke rigor, past participle broken rigor)
Senses:
qualifier: mortuary technology
glosses: To manipulate a corpse in which rigor mortis has set in, (by massage, flexing joints, or brute force) in order to change the position of the body.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, rigor.
Forms:
form: breaks rigor
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breaking rigor
tags: participle
present
form: broke rigor
tags: past
form: broken rigor
tags: participle
past