stuff /stʌf/
1. 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. miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
synset: stuff
3. informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"
4. senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
synset: stuff, stuff_and_nonsense, hooey, poppycock
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"
synset: stuff
6. information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
synset: stuff
7. a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
synset: stuff
1. cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
synset: stuff
2. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
synset: thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze
3. obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
synset: stuff, lug, choke_up, block
4. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
synset: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig_out, satiate, scarf_out
5. treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"
synset: stuff
6. fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"
synset: stuff
7. fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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