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padded out

padded out is the simple past and past participle of pad out.

Meaning of pad out

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.
  2. (idiomatic, slang) To sleep or go to bed.
    • Because of my job I usually pad out just before nine o'clock.

Questions about padded out

What is padded out the simple past and past participle of?
Padded out is the simple past and past participle of pad out.

Words near padded out in the dictionary

  1. padded down
  2. padded envelope
  3. padded envelopes
  4. padded mailer
  5. padded mailers
  6. padded out
  7. padded room
  8. padded rooms
  9. padded the hoof
  10. padded up
  11. paddedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: padded out (page history and authors); pad out (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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