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Meaning of 'stuff' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Stuff [ n.]
- To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
- To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
- To fill by being pressed or packed into.
- To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
- To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
- To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
- To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
2 . Stuff [ v. i.]
- To feed gluttonously; to cram.
3 . Stuff [ v. t.]
- Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
- The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
- Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
- Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
- A medicine or mixture; a potion.
- Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
- A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- Paper stock ground ready for use.

Meaning of 'stuff' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . stuff [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
Example in sentence:
  • coal is a hard black material;
  • wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
Meaning (2):
- informal terms for personal possessions
Example in sentence:
  • did you take all your clobber?
Meaning (3):
- senseless talk
Example in sentence:
  • don't give me that stuff
Meaning (4):
- information in some unspecified form
Example in sentence:
  • it was stuff I had heard before;
  • there's good stuff in that book
Meaning (5):
- a critically important or characteristic component
Example in sentence:
  • suspense is the very stuff of narrative
Meaning (6):
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
Example in sentence:
  • the stuff of heros;
  • you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine
Meaning (7):
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
Example in sentence:
  • the trunk was full of stuff
8 . stuff [ v]
Meaning (8):
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
Example in sentence:
  • Have you stuffed the turkey yet?
Meaning (9):
- obstruct
Example in sentence:
  • Her arteries are blocked;
  • My nose is all stuffed
Meaning (10):
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Example in sentence:
  • She stuffed herself at the dinner;
  • The kids binged on ice cream
Meaning (11):
- press or force
Example in sentence:
  • She thrust the letter into his hand;
  • Stuff money into an envelope
Meaning (12):
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
Example in sentence:
  • stuff a bearskin
Meaning (13):
- fill tightly with a material
Example in sentence:
  • stuff a pillow with feathers
Meaning (14):
- cram into a cavity
Example in sentence:
  • The child stuffed candy into his pockets

Nearby Words:

stub stubbed stubbedness stubbiness stubbing stubble stubbled stubbly stubborn stubby

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  • Unstuffing
    Unstuffing refers to the removal of cargo from a container. Also called stripping.

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