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stuff in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. obstruct
    "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
    stuff  lug  choke up  block 
  2. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
    "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
    gorge  ingurgitate  overindulge  glut  englut  stuff  engorge  overgorge  overeat  gormandize  gormandise  gourmandize  binge  pig out  satiate  scarf out 
  3. fill with a stuffing while cooking
    "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
    farce  stuff 
  4. press or force
    "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
    thrust  stuff  shove  squeeze 
  5. fill tightly with a material
    "stuff a pillow with feathers"
    stuff 
  6. treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
    "stuff a bearskin"
    stuff 
  7. cram into a cavity
    "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
    stuff 
noun
  1. informal terms for personal possessions
    "did you take all your clobber?"
    stuff  clobber 
  2. senseless talk
    "don't give me that stuff"
    stuff  stuff and nonsense  hooey  poppycock 
  3. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
    "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
    material  stuff 
  4. miscellaneous unspecified objects
    "the trunk was full of stuff"
    stuff 
  5. unspecified qualities required to do or be something
    "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
    stuff 
  6. a critically important or characteristic component
    "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
    stuff 
  7. information in some unspecified form
    "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
    stuff 
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