stuffed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of stuff

2. 2

   Full or packed (with some material or substance).

   • Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
   • Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.
3. 3

   Filled with a filling and seasoning.

   • We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.
   • The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.
4. ›+ 3 more definitionsshow fewer

   1. 4

      Full after eating.

      • Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
      • Stuffed children sleep poorly.
      • Beth says: "I never knew when I was full 'cause I always felt like I didn't know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving."
   2. 5

      Very tired.

      • 'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.'
   3. 6

      Broken, not functional

      Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.

      • If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we'd gone a kilometre along the railway.
      • But if you don't play ball in life, if you don′t go for it with a sincere 'Go, girrrrl' rugby-tackle attitude, you're really stuffed.
      • Although the 14-inch Standard that Yamato targets is stuffed, and maybe the one after that, a prolonged bombardment by a Colorado-class is not gonna do good things to anything - doesn't really matter who you are.

The neighborhood