overstuff

verb

over·​stuff ˌō-vər-ˈstəf 

overstuffed; overstuffing; overstuffs

transitive verb

1

: to stuff too full

2

: to cover (a piece of furniture, such as a chair or sofa) completely and deeply with upholstery

Examples of overstuff in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This year’s Cannes Film Festival was overstuffed with masters of European and Asian cinema — Hamaguchi, Farhadi, Almodóvar, Kore-eda, Mungiu, Pawlikowski, Zvyagintsev and so on. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

Eccles’s fix is a set of compression bags paired with a cordless pump, which squeezes clothing down, so everything fits without overstuffing a suitcase. — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2026

If a system leaned too heavily on on-page textual signals, people could just overstuff their content with word bloat to artificially boost ranking. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

The topper is overstuffed with filling to add fluffy, soft hotel-level comfort to your bed. — Aashna Gheewalla, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1715, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for overstuff

• buff
• cuff
• duff
• fluff
• gruff
• hough
• huff
• luff
• muff
• puff
• rough
• ruff