padding

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Synonyms: pudding, paddling, wadding, adding, gadding, madding, podding, jadding, vadding, badding

Antonyms: pudding, paddling, wadding, adding, gadding, madding, podding, jadding, vadding, badding

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Verb

1. present participle and gerund of pad

Noun

1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
3. Anything of little value used to fill up space.
   • That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
4. The process of mordanting a fabric.
5. A diaper.
6. Robbing on a highway.

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