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• v  add details to
• v  walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
• v  line or stuff with soft material
• v  add padding to
• s  softened by the addition of cushions or padding

• The video hit the Internet in early March and was met with widespread media attention ("Britain's first safe text street has been created complete with padded lampposts to protect .
• Just how much True Story's 1940 circulation figures were padded (PTI, May 12) was revealed last week by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
• Known as the bump collection, it deformed the silhouette with Quasimodo-style padded lumps placed strangely and strategically on models' backs, shoulders and hips.

• embroider
• pad
• lard
• embellish
• aggrandize
• aggrandise
• blow up
• dramatize
• dramatise
• slog
• footslog
• plod
• trudge
• tramp
• fill out
• bolster
• cushioned
• cushiony

News & Articles

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• Quilt Day offers chance to expand the story of your vintage quilt
  Many of us have antique quilts tucked away — hopefully, rolled up safely in a cotton sheet or folded away, padded with acid-free tissue paper, in an acid-free box.
  June 13, 2013 - Bangor Daily News
• British music festivals in tune with older, cashed-up fans
  By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's summer music festival season kicks off this week with a line-up ranging from the Rolling Stones to Beyonce to exiled Tibetan monks designed to attract the modern festival-goer - a 36-year-old with a well-padded wallet. Music festivals have become an integral part of summer for British music fans with Bon Jovi and Blondie at the Isle of Wight ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Edmonds school lunch workers wasted 1,500 meals
  EDMONDS, Wash.  -- Two food service workers with the Edmonds School District padded their paychecks in 2011 and 2012 by preparing more than 1,500 extra meals that were thrown in the trash. The Daily Herald reports their salaries were based on the number of subsidized meals for children in free or reduced lunch programs. The workers made meals for students who were absent or meals that were ...
  June 11, 2013 - KING5 Seattle

Quotes

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• Nick Swisher in SI.com
  I hope the walls are padded over there in Chicago,Swisher said.
• Terry Francona in Hartford Courant
  His lower back is a little sore,Francona said. "He went up and hit the top of the wall, that part's not padded. I think he hit his elbow, too. His lower back got tighter and tighter as the game progressed. We'd much rather be safe than...
• Billy Graham in ic Wales
  We could easily have padded our bank balances out, because enough people would pay to see Ricky fight Humpty Dumpty in Britain and make him a lot of money,added Graham. "But that's not the point. I always knew Ricky would be an all-time...