English to English

stuff
(st/@/f )

noun (n)

  • 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.
    source: wordnet30
  • information in some unspecified form(noun.communication)
    Example:
    It was stuff I had heard before.
    There's good stuff in that book.
    source: wordnet30
  • a critically important or characteristic component(noun.cognition)
    Example:
    Suspense is the very stuff of narrative.
    source: wordnet30
  • Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • cram into a cavity(verb.contact)
    Example:
    The child stuffed candy into his pockets.
    source: wordnet30
  • press or force(verb.motion)
    Example:
    Stuff money into an envelope.
    Synonym:
    shove, squeeze, thrust
    source: wordnet30
  • obstruct(verb.contact)
    Example:
    My nose is all stuffed.
    Synonym:
    block, choke up, lug
    Antonym:
    loosen up, unstuff
    source: wordnet30
  • 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.
    source: wordnet30
  • 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
    source: wordnet30
  • 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
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