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Noun: padding  pading
  1. Artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
    - cushioning
Verb: pad (padded,padding)  pad
  1. Add details to
    - embroider, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise [Brit], blow up, dramatize, dramatise [Brit]
     
  2. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
    - slog, footslog, plod, trudge, tramp
     
  3. Line or stuff with soft material
    "pad a bra"
    - fill out
     
  4. Add padding to
    "pad the seat of the chair"
    - bolster

Derived forms: paddings

Type of: amplify, artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], exaggerate, fill, fill up, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, magnify, make full, overdraw, overstate, stuff, walk

Encyclopedia: Pad

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