n. | 1. | Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. |
| 2. | The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. |
| 3. | Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber. |
| 4. | Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils. |
| 5. | A medicine or mixture; a potion. |
| 6. | Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash. |
| 7. | (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. |
| 8. | Paper stock ground ready for use. |
v. t. | 1. | To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick. |
| 2. | To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. |
| 3. | To fill by being pressed or packed into. |
| 4. | (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey. |
| 5. | To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. |
| 6. | To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; - said of birds or other animals. |
| 7. | To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. |
| 8. | To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies. |
| 9. | To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). |
v. i. | 1. | To feed gluttonously; to cram. |
Noun | 1. | stuff - 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" |
| 2. | stuff - miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff" |
| 3. | stuff - informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" |
| 4. | stuff - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" |
| 5. | stuff - unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine" |
| 6. | stuff - information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book" |
| 7. | stuff - a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" |
Verb | 1. | stuff - fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy" |
| 2. | stuff - press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" |
| 3. | stuff - obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"Antonyms: loosen up, unstuff - cause to become unblocked; "The medicine unstuffed my nose in minutes!" |
| 4. | stuff - overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, satiate |
| 5. | stuff - treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin" |
| 6. | stuff - fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist" |
| 7. | stuff - fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" |