overstuff

[oh-ver-stuhf]

verb (used with object)

1. to force too much into.

   If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.

2. Furniture.,  to cover completely with deep upholstery.

overstuff

/ ˌəʊvəˈstʌf /

verb

1. to force too much into

2. to cover (furniture) entirely with upholstery

Word History and Origins

Origin of overstuff¹

First recorded in 1935–40; over- + stuff

Example Sentences

Both the meal and the conversation had been a great deal to absorb, and she was feeling quite overstuffed, in head, heart, and tummy.

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The Times’ Joshua Rothkopf called it a “wildly ambitious, overstuffed city epic.”

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Bouchard explains that the show’s approach to these milestone episodes have been to “go small and deep” to avoid overstuffing them with fan service.

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It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

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And just like those cases, such an overstuffed film would not work without the right star to reduce the cinematic clutter.

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Related Words

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• pack 
• pad 
• shove 
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