[
UK
/stˈʌf/
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[ 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
-
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.
- And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
- 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.
