Usually means: Stiffening of muscles after death.
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  1. rigor mortis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rigor mortis)

noun:  Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death.
verb:  To stiffen the muscles and joints with, or as if with, rigor mortis.

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