1. Softened by the addition of cushions or padding
   "The tired woman sat down in the padded chair";
   - cushioned, cushiony

1. Line or stuff with soft material
   "pad a bra";
   - fill out
    
2. Add padding to
   "pad the seat of the chair";
   - bolster
    
3. Make appear better or greater (in power, wealth, quality, etc.) than reality
   "The salesman padded his resume";
   - embroider, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise [Brit], dramatize, dramatise [Brit]
    
4. Walk quietly, esp. barefoot or with soft footwear
   "She padded across the room in her slippers"
    
5. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
   "The tired hikers padded back to camp";
   - slog, footslog, plod, trudge, tramp, tromp [N. Amer, informal], trog [Brit, informal]

See also: soft

Type of: amplify, exaggerate, fill, fill up, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate, stuff, walk

Encyclopedia: Pad, West Virginia