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Definition of Overstuffed
1. Adjective. Upholstered thickly and deeply. "An overstuffed sofa"
Definition of Overstuffed
1. Verb. (past of overstuff) ¹
2. Adjective. being filled beyond reasonable capacity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overstuffed
1. overstuff [v] - See also: overstuff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstuffed
Literary usage of Overstuffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration of Antemortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler, Adolph Eichhorn (1919)
"Overstuffed can: one which has been strained in packing, by forcing too much of
the product into it. 7. Strained can: one which has been overstuffed or ..."
2. Ballistic Missile Defense: Responding to the Current Ballistic Missile edited by Robert L Ehrlich (2000)
"US forces are not "overstuffed."4 They are, if anything, already growing too weak
to meet the challenging task of outgunning rogue states that have the ..."
3. Furniture Designing and Draughting: Notes on the Elementary Forms, Methods by Alvan Crocker Nye (1907)
"Overstuffed pieces do not admit of a great variety of good forms. There are no
end of patterns, or designs, in which an attempt has been made to produce ..."
4. Changing the Fourth Estate: Essays on South African Journalism by Adrian Hadland (2006)
"Journalists, a technophobic lot, rarely own such overstuffed electronic trinkets.
... But whether we like them or not, overstuffed cellphones are the future ..."
5. Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm. (1994)
"US forces are not "overstuffed."4 They are, if anything, already growing too weak
to meet the challenging task of outgunning rogue states that have the ..."
6. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored by John Wesley Powell, Smithsonian Institution, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode (1875)
"The general appearance of this animal is so exactly that of an overgrown or
overstuffed specimen of ordinary bursarius, that I should be at a loss for terms ..."
7. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored by John Wesley Powell, Smithsonian Institution, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode (1875)
"The general appearance of this animal is so exactly that of an overgrown or
overstuffed specimen of ordinary bursarius, that I should be at a loss for terms ..."
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