stuff | English to English Dictionary

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stuff

(st/@/f )

the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object(noun.substance)

Example:
Wheat is the stuff they use to make bread.

Synonym:
material

source: wordnet30
miscellaneous unspecified objects(noun.artifact)

Example:
The trunk was full of stuff.

source: wordnet30
informal terms for personal possessions(noun.possession)

Synonym:
clobber

source: wordnet30
senseless talk(noun.communication)

Example:
Don't give me that stuff.

Synonym:
hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense

source: wordnet30
unspecified qualities required to do or be something(noun.attribute)

Example:
The stuff of heros.
You don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine.

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information in some unspecified form(noun.communication)

Example:
It was stuff I had heard before.
There's good stuff in that book.

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a critically important or characteristic component(noun.cognition)

Example:
Suspense is the very stuff of narrative.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.(noun)

source: webster1913

cram into a cavity(verb.contact)

Example:
The child stuffed candy into his pockets.

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press or force(verb.motion)

Example:
Stuff money into an envelope.

Synonym:
shove, squeeze, thrust

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obstruct(verb.contact)

Example:
My nose is all stuffed.

Synonym:
block, choke up, lug
Antonym:
loosen up, unstuff

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overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself(verb.consumption)

Example:
She stuffed herself at the dinner.

Synonym:
binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out

source: wordnet30
treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting(verb.change)

Example:
Stuff a bearskin.

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fill tightly with a material(verb.change)

Example:
Stuff a pillow with feathers.

source: wordnet30
fill with a stuffing while cooking(verb.change)

Example:
Have you stuffed the turkey yet?.

Synonym:
farce

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To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.(verb)

source: webster1913
To feed gluttonously; to cram.(verb)

source: webster1913