pad
verb/pæd/
/pæd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they pad | /pæd/ /pæd/ |
| he / she / it pads | /pædz/ /pædz/ |
| past simple padded | /ˈpædɪd/ /ˈpædɪd/ |
| past participle padded | /ˈpædɪd/ /ˈpædɪd/ |
| -ing form padding | /ˈpædɪŋ/ /ˈpædɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, often passive] to put a layer of soft material in or on something in order to protect it, make it thicker or change its shape
- a padded jacket
- a padded envelope (= for sending delicate objects)
- She was wearing a warm coat and heavily padded gloves.
- be padded with something All the sharp corners were padded with foam.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- well
- with
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- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to walk with quiet steps
- She padded across the room to the window.
Extra Examples- He padded around in his socks eating cereal.
- She padded softly around the house.
- The girl padded barefoot over to the window.
- The cat padded silently along the track.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quietly
- silently
- softly
- …
- about
- around
- across
- …
- [transitive] pad something (North American English) to dishonestly add items to bills to obtain more money
- to pad bills/expense accounts
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Word Originverb sense 1 and verb sense 3 mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘bundle of straw to lie on’): the senses may not be of common origin; the meaning ‘underpart of an animal's foot’ is perhaps related to Low German pad ‘sole of the foot’; the history remains obscure. verb sense 2 mid 16th cent.: from Low German padden ‘to tread, go along a path’, partly imitative.
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