Stuffed vs Squeezed - What's the difference?
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(stuff)
Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
*1997 , Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds , p.109:
*:Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
*2008 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side ,
*:She didn?t forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.
*2009 , Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies , 2nd Edition,
*:The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
*2009 , David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet , iUniverse,
*:Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.
(lb) Full after eating.
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*2002 , Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia ,
*: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.”
*2009 , Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter ,
*:“See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed'.” / “Yes, quite ' stuffed .”
*2009 , Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal ,
*:Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / “I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn?t eat more if you begged me to.”
Very tired.
*2011 , Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human , Xlibris,
*:‘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.’
Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
*1998 , , The Night is for Hunting , 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
*: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.
*2002 , Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings ,
*: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 .
(squeeze)
To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place
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To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty
To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices
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(figurative) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
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(baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting
A difficult position
A traversal of a narrow passage
A hug or other affectionate grasp
(slang) A romantic partner
(baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third
(epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
(card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
(archaic) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China.
Stuffed is a related term of squeezed.
As verbs the difference between stuffed and squeezed
is that stuffed is (stuff) while squeezed is (squeeze).As an adjective stuffed
is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).stuffed
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Derived terms
* get stuffed * stuffed animal, stuffy * stuffed shirtsqueezed
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(head)squeeze
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(squeez)- I squeezed the ball between my hands.
- Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle.
- "Over there—by the rock," Steele muttered, with his brush between his teeth, squeezing out raw sienna, and keeping his eyes fixed on Betty Flanders's back.
- I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.
- Can you squeeze through that gap?
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- Could he not squeeze under the seat of a carriage? He had seen this method adopted by schoolboys, when the journey- money provided by thoughtful parents had been diverted to other and better ends.
- He squeezed some money out of his wallet.
- I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
- In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden.
- Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.
Derived terms
(terms derived from the verb "squeeze") * squeezable * squeezebox * squeeze in * squeeze out * squeezer * squeezy * unsqueezeNoun
(en noun)- I'm in a tight squeeze right now when it comes to my free time.
- It was a tight squeeze , but I got through to the next section of the cave.
- a gentle squeeze on the arm
- I want to be your main squeeze
- The game ended in exciting fashion with a failed squeeze .
- The light not being good enough for photography, I took a squeeze of the stone.
