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
   "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]

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