Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To empty; hence, to depopulate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove the
stuffing from. - verb transitive, computing To
decompress (a compressed archive in the StuffIt format).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to become unblocked
Etymologies
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Examples
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The poll worker was down on his knees trying to "unstuff" it .... '
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And thank goodness the poll worker had functioning knees and could stay down there for the half an hour it took to "unstuff" the ballot box.
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After the service on Sundays I also have to 'unstuff' them again.
I Was Born2Cree8 2008
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The Torah is condensed wisdom you can unpack and unstuff over time, she says.
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The Torah is condensed wisdom you can unpack and unstuff over time, she says.
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We especially need space during the dog days of August to unstuff feelings and detoxify emotionally.
Aleta St. James: Dog Days of Summer: 'Chosen One' Challenge--Break Through Desperation! 2010
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We did not have our current array of political and economic turkeys to unstuff.
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Unstuff this. bin file to seperate the data in to two files. stone@durin: ~/icons$ unstuff mtxr_icn. bin
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Without setting the parameters to tell unstuff how to treat the file, it will extract 0-byte Icons. stone@durin: ~/icons$ unstuff - e = unix - m = auto - t = on The\ Matrix\ Rebooted\ Icons. sit.data
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Without setting the parameters to tell unstuff how to treat the file, it will extract 0-byte Icons. stone@durin: ~/icons$ unstuff - e = unix - m = auto - t = on The\ Matrix\ Rebooted\ Icons. sit.data
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