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Another word for padding

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Noun

  1. Filling

      1. To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
      2. To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble:
      3. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose:
      1. A wad.
      2. Wads considered as a group.
      3. A soft layer of cotton, wool, or other fibrous material used for padding or stuffing.
      1. Padding put in cushions and upholstered furniture.
      2. Food put into the cavity of a piece of meat or a vegetable that has been hollowed out.
    See also:

    filling

  2. Verbosity

    See also:

    wordiness

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Sentence Examples

  • Padding barefoot across the footbridge, she joined Alex.

  • Deidre looked at him hard for a moment then shook her head and gripped her wine, padding into the living area.

  • Later, the form was reproduced by elaborate external wrappings of the different parts of the body before the final swathing; later still, in the Ptolemaic age, by coarse padding with plenty of linen and pitch.

  • Among these are sateen, which, dyed or printed, is largely used for dresses, linings, upholstery, &c.; linenette, dyed and finished to imitate coloured linen in the north of Ireland and elsewhere; hollandette, usually unbleached or half-bleached and finished to imitate linen holland; and interlining, a coarse, plain white calico used as padding for linen collars.

  • Among the Guanches of the Canary Islands, however, the Egyptian methods of emptying the body and padding he skin were closely paralleled.

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