pad – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to pad out sth
Participle: padded out sth
Gerund: padding out sth

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	pad out sth
we	Let's pad out sth
you	pad out sth

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

cushion

mat, pillow, stuffing, wadding, filling, padding, matting, bolster

augment

inflate, increase, expand, enlarge, amplify, spread, stretch, lengthen

Antonyms

augment

reduction, deduction, curtailment, diminution

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1554, "bundle of straw to lie on," possibly from Low Ger. or Flem. pad "sole of the foot." Meaning "cushion-like part of an animal foot" is from 1836 in Eng. Generalized sense of "something soft" is from c.1700; the sense of "a number of sheets fastened together" (in writing pad, drawing pad, etc.) is from 1865. Sense of "take off or landing place for a helicopter" is from 1960. The word persisted in underworld slang from early 18c. in the sense "sleeping place," and was popularized again c.1959, originally in beatnik speech (later hippie slang) in its original sense of "place to sleep temporarily." The verb meaning "to stuff, increase the amount of" is first recorded 1827, from the noun; transf. to expense accounts, etc. from 1913. Padded cell in an asylum or prison is from 1862 (padded room).
2. 1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

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