[
UK
/stˈʌf/
]
[ US /ˈstəf/ ]
[ US /ˈstəf/ ]
VERB
-
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
She stuffed herself at the dinner
The kids binged on ice cream -
obstruct
Her arteries are blocked
My nose is all stuffed -
cram into a cavity
The child stuffed candy into his pockets -
treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
stuff a bearskin -
press or force
Stuff money into an envelope
She thrust the letter into his hand -
fill with a stuffing while cooking
Have you stuffed the turkey yet? -
fill tightly with a material
stuff a pillow with feathers
NOUN
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unspecified qualities required to do or be something
you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine
the stuff of heros -
miscellaneous unspecified objects
the trunk was full of stuff -
a critically important or characteristic component
suspense is the very stuff of narrative -
information in some unspecified form
there's good stuff in that book
it was stuff I had heard before -
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
coal is a hard black material -
senseless talk
don't give me that stuff -
informal terms for personal possessions
did you take all your clobber?
How To Use stuff In A Sentence
- Turn out the lot and the wellrotted stuff at the base can be put on unplanted soil. The Sun
- She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
- There are some sharp lines and a couple of catchy songs but there's also a lot of turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
- The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
- This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
- He looked a bit worried when I sat down at the table and produced a bunch of inhalers, some pills, a bottle of cough syrup and some throat lozenges and proceeded to stuff them all into my mouth…
- The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.” Archive 2008-10-01
- Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
- We also went to the DIY store for garden stuff and for a big bucket of white emulsion paint to brighten up the walls in Graham's workshop.
- I've been bushwhacked with a bunch of stuff that's keeping me away from the keyboard!