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1. Artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
   "fragile items require separation and padding";
   - cushioning

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
   - embroider, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise [Brit], blow up, dramatize, dramatise [Brit]
    
4. Walk quietly, esp. barefoot or with soft footwear
    
5. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
   "Mules padded in a circle around a grindstone";
   - slog, footslog, plod, trudge, tramp, tromp [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: paddings

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

Encyclopedia: Padding