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Definition:

miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of 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";

a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative";

senseless talk; "don''t give me that stuff";

information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there''s good stuff in that book";

informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?";

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";

fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?";

fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist";

treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin";

overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream";

obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked";

fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy";

press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand";

Entailments: tan

Derivational Morphology: stuffing, dressing, taxidermist, animal stuffer, stuffer, bust, tear, binge, bout, glutton, gourmand, trencherman, gluttony, overeating, gula, engorgement, overindulgence, excess, scoffer, gorger, blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage, shove, push, thrust

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