Dam
Dam verb - To prevent passage through by filling with something.
Usage example: ice floes were damming the river
Stuff
Stuff verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.
Usage example: stuffed the box with tissue paper so the contents wouldn't rattle around
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- The Angry Beavers, "The Posei-Dam Adventure": Daggett nails all his stuff down and handcuffs himself to Truckie the shrew because he's worried Truckie will try to steal his stuff.
Source: Properly Paranoid -
Meanwhile, as Jacques is building the dam, he says to himself "I feel like pesky beaver." Stuff Blowing Up: The dam is blown up a couple of times.
Source: Western Animation / Wet Hare - Rob Van Dam, able to do stuff usually reserved for the smaller high flyers, like back somersaults from a standing still position, while weighing close to 250 pounds of muscle.
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