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pads out

pads out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pads out

What is pads out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pads out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pad out.

Words near pads out in the dictionary

  1. Padros
  2. padrão
  3. padrões
  4. pads
  5. pads down
  6. pads out
  7. pads the hoof
  8. pads up
  9. padsaw
  10. padsaws
  11. padshah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pads 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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