Decrease and Stuff

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

stuff

The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- usage: "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
- synonyms: material
Miscellaneous unspecified objects.
- usage: "the trunk was full of stuff"
Informal terms for personal possessions.
- usage: "did you take all your clobber"
- synonyms: clobber
Senseless talk.
- usage: "don't give me that stuff"
- synonyms: stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
Unspecified qualities required to do or be something.
- usage: "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
Information in some unspecified form.
- usage: "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
A critically important or characteristic component.
- usage: "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

Cram into a cavity.
- usage: "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
Press or force.
- usage: "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
- synonyms: thrust, shove, squeeze
Obstruct.
- usage: "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
- synonyms: lug, choke up, block
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.
- usage: "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
- synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting.
- usage: "stuff a bearskin"
Fill tightly with a material.
- usage: "stuff a pillow with feathers"
Fill with a stuffing while cooking.
- usage: "Have you stuffed the turkey yet"
- synonyms: farce

(v.t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
(v.t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
(v.t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
(n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
(n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
(n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
(n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
(n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
(n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
(v.t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
(n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
(v.t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
(v.i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
(v.t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
(n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
(v.t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
(n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
(v.t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary