stuffed
Because it is a word with a single syllable, stuffed is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofstuffed
- To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
Example: "I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers."
- To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
Example: "He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door."
- To fill with seasoning.
Example: "She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe."
- To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (used in the passive) To sate.
Example: "I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing."
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
Synonyms: "feed one's face", "fill one's face", "stuff one's face"
Example: "She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns."
- To break; to destroy.
Example: "He skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car."
- To sexually penetrate.
Example: "His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid."
- (mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
Example: "Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like."
- To heavily defeat or get the better of.
Example: "Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7-0 in the semi-final."
- To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
Example: "I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash."
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
- To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- Full or packed (with some material or substance).
Example: "Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase."
- Filled with seasoning
Example: "We're having stuffed turkey for dinner."
- Full after eating.
Example: "Stuffed children sleep poorly."
- Very tired.
- Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
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