Tom was caught padding his expense account.
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Padding
//ˈpædɪŋ//
Synonyms for "padding" (183 found)
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Strong matches (55)
Related words (91)
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2 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
4 entriesform of
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2 entriesis a
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1 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 15 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στοιβή noun (soft filling material)
Bulgarian
1 entries- подплънка noun (soft filling material)
Catalan
1 entries- encoixinada noun (soft filling material)
Dutch
1 entries- vulling noun (soft filling material)
Finnish
4 entries- pehmike noun (soft filling material)
- pehmuste noun (soft filling material)
- täyte noun (extra characters such as spaces added to a record)
- täyte noun (extraneous text added to a message)
French
1 entries- rembourrage noun (soft filling material)
German
1 entries- Füllung noun (soft filling material)
Hebrew
1 entries- ריפוד noun (soft filling material)
Italian
1 entries- imbottitura noun (soft filling material)
Māori
1 entries- whakapuru noun (soft filling material)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- فودره noun (soft filling material)
Polish
2 entries- ocieplina noun (soft filling material)
- watolina noun (soft filling material)
Portuguese
1 entries- acolchoamento noun (soft filling material)
Spanish
3 entries- acolchado noun (soft filling material)
- floreo noun (extraneous text added to a message)
- floro noun (extraneous text added to a message)
Swedish
3 entries- stoppning noun (soft filling material)
- utfyllnad noun (extra characters such as spaces added to a record)
- utfyllnad noun (extraneous text added to a message)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Inside a hut that echoed with emptiness at Masizini, a village in the interior of South Africa’s Wild Coast region, a woman in a pink uniform, its shoulders adorned with purple padding into which silver and blue medals were pinned, folded her ample arms, sighed and laughed.
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Her jacket had padding in the shoulders.
Source: tatoeba (11535960)
The chairs had comfortable padding.
Source: tatoeba (12476476)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.