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pad out

pad out verb: to add something extra to something to make it appear more substantial.

Verb

pad out (third-person singular simple present pads out, present participle padding out, simple past and past participle padded out)

  1. (idiomatic) To add something extra to something to make it appear more substantial.
    • Some students pad out their essays by adding a whole lot of quotes from random sources.
    • Have you heard about girls padding out their bras to make their breasts look bigger?
  2. (idiomatic, slang) To sleep or go to bed.
    • Because of my job I usually pad out just before nine o'clock.
    • My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.

pad out meaning in Bengali

pad out in Bengali

ঘুমানো, শুতে যাওয়া

Forms of pad out

third-person singular presentpads out
present participlepadding out
past participlepadded out
pastpadded out

Questions about pad out

What does pad out mean?
Pad out means to add something extra to something to make it appear more substantial.
What is pad out in Bengali?
Pad out in Bengali is ঘুমানো, শুতে যাওয়া. See Pad out meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pad out?
Pad out is a verb.
What is the past tense of pad out?
The past tense of pad out is padded out.

Words near pad out in the dictionary

  1. pad down
  2. pad elephant
  3. pad elephants
  4. pad kee mao
  5. pad kee mow
  6. pad out
  7. pad paper
  8. pad play
  9. pad printing
  10. pad room
  11. pad rooms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pad out (page history and authors); pad out (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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