STUFF

• (noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects

  "the trunk was full of stuff"

• (noun) unspecified qualities required to do or be something

  "the stuff of heros", "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"

• (noun) a critically important or characteristic component

  "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

• (noun) senseless talk

  "don't give me that stuff"

  synonyms : hooey , poppycock , stuff and nonsense

• (noun) information in some unspecified form

  "it was stuff I had heard before", "there's good stuff in that book"

• (noun) informal terms for personal possessions

  "did you take all your clobber?"

  synonyms : clobber

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : material

• (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking

  "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"

  synonyms : farce

• (verb) fill tightly with a material

  "stuff a pillow with feathers"

• (verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting

  "stuff a bearskin"

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

  "She stuffed herself at the dinner", "The kids binged on ice cream"

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

• (verb) obstruct

  "My nose is all stuffed", "Her arteries are blocked"

  synonyms : block , choke up , lug

• (verb) cram into a cavity

  "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"

• (verb) press or force

  "Stuff money into an envelope", "She thrust the letter into his hand"

  synonyms : shove , squeeze , thrust

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