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Without the attributions, I'd have trouble telling their stuff
apart.
--v. 6 jam, ram, cram, crowd, compress, pack, press, squeeze,
squash, shove, thrust, force: You couldn't stuff another
handkerchief into that suitcase. 7 line, fill, pack: Stuff the
chicken with the following mixture. 8 overeat, gorge,
overindulge, gormandize, gluttonize, Colloq make a pig or a hog
of oneself: They really stuffed themselves at the wedding
reception. 9 stuff up. clog, plug, obstruct, choke, block (up),
stop or US also pack up: Phone the plumber: the drain is
stuffed up again. The cold had given her a headache and a
stuffed-up nose.
stuffy adj. 1 close, airless, unventilated, oppressive, stifling,
suffocating, stale, musty, fusty, mouldy, mildewy, muggy, fetid
or foetid, frowzy or frouzy or frowsy, Brit frowsty: It was
stuffy in the ancient tomb. 2 pompous, pedantic,
self-important, self-centred, stodgy, old-fogyish or
old-fogeyish, old-fashioned, strait-laced, staid, conventional,
prim (and proper), priggish, niminy-piminy, stilted, stiff,
rigid, Colloq fuddy-duddy, uptight: What a bore to be trapped
for an entire evening with those stuffy old codgers!
stumble v. 1 falter, blunder, slip, trip, miss one's footing, stagger,
lurch, flounder: Minnie caught her heel in the grating and
stumbled. 2 falter, pause, hesitate, trip, slip, blunder: He
was very nervous and stumbled his way through his speech. 3
stumble on or upon. chance or come or happen on or upon, hit
upon, come or run across, find, discover, encounter, Colloq bump
into: I stumbled on a great new pub when I was out on Saturday.
stumbling-block
n. impediment, obstacle, bar, block, obstruction, hurdle,
hindrance, barrier, difficulty, snag: It was often labour
unions that proved the stumbling-blocks to technological
progress.
stump n. 1 stub, butt, end: The branches were lopped off, leaving
only the stumps.
--v. 2 mystify, confuse, perplex, bewilder, flummox, foil,
puzzle, baffle, confound, dumbfound or dumfound, stop, stymie,