Meaning

16 senses
  1. (transitive)To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

    I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.

    ausstopfen, füllen

    набива́тьnabivátʹ, наби́тьnabítʹ, заполня́тьzapolnjátʹ

    cram into a cavity

  2. (transitive)To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.

    He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.

    hineinstopfen, reinstopfen

    заполня́тьzapolnjátʹ, засу́нутьzasúnutʹ, запихну́тьzapixnútʹ

    fill tightly with a material

  3. (transitive)To fill with seasoning.

    She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.

    füllen

    фарширова́тьfarširovátʹ, запра́витьzaprávitʹ

    fill with a stuffing while cooking

  4. (transitive)To load goods into (a container) for transport.

  5. (transitive)To sate.

    I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.

    voll sein

    насытитьсяnasytitʹsja, быть сытым, насытитьnasytitʹ

  6. (pronominal, usually)To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

    She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.

    sich vollstopfen, stopfen

  7. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive)To break; to destroy.

    He skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car.

    слома́тьсяslomátʹsja

  8. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive, vulgar)To sexually penetrate.

    His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.

    nudeln

    соватьsovatʹ, сунутьsunutʹ

  9. (imperative, mildly, often, transitive, vulgar)Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.

    Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like.

  10. (informal)To heavily defeat or get the better of.

    Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7–0 in the semi-final.

    They totally stuffed us in that business deal.

  11. (transitive)To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

    I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.

  12. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.

    ausstopfen

    набива́тьnabivátʹ, наби́тьnabítʹ

Examples

1664 sentences
  1. Get this stuff out of here.

    Забери ці речі звідси.

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  2. Keep your hands off my stuff.

    Не чіпай моїх речей.

    ruНе прикасайся к моим вещам.

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  3. Tom gathered his stuff and left.

    Том зібрав речі та пішов.

    ruТом собрал свои вещи и ушёл.

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  4. I like that kind of stuff.

    Мені таке подобається.

    ruЯ люблю такие вещи.

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  5. I never do stuff like that.

    Я ніколи нічого такого не роблю.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 7
to fill by crowding into:
to fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner:
to fill with seasoning:
to be sated:
to make sated:
to break:
vulgar: to sexually penetrate:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
to fill by crowding into:
to fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner:
to make sated:
to eat in a hearty or greedy manner:
vulgar: to sexually penetrate:
to obstruct the organs of sense or respiration:

Origin

From Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old French estoffer, esto

From Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old French estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.

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Forms

stuffs, stuffing, stuffed, stuffed
Base formstuff · to stuff
3rd person singularstuffs
Present participlestuffing
Past simplestuffed
Past participlestuffed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystuff
he, she, itstuffs

Past simpleLesson

all personsstuffed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stuffed
he, she, ithas stuffed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stuff

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

28 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

15 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • all this stuff
  • kind of stuff
  • lot of stuff
  • of this stuff
  • stuff like that
  • this stuff away
  • some stuff
  • this stuff is
  • all the stuff
  • stuff like
  • stuff away
  • bought some stuff

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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